Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
HELEN KELLERPeople do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
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Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
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As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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Your success and happiness lie in you.
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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience.
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We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.
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I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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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.
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