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.
HELEN KELLERI rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
More Helen Keller Quotes
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Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
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The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
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The only lightless dark is the night of ingnorance and insensibility.
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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.
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For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
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I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
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Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
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There is joy in self-forgetfulness.
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Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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