Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller Quotations
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us.
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.
Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Keep your eyes to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.
The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.