It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
~ Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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.
You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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 towards our distant goal.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
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.
I never fight except against difficulties.
[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Believe when you are most unhappy that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain life is not in vain.
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.
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.
Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
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.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
