True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~ Helen Keller
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
