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.
HELEN KELLERRelationships are like Rome – difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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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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What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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My friends have made the story of my life.
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Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
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Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
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So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
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What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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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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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
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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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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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