True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
HELEN KELLERI 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.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone.
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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.
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
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Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
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The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
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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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It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement .
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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The mind is as big as the universe.
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The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
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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.
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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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The only lightless dark is the night of ingnorance and insensibility.
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We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
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Your success and happiness lie in you.
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In a thousand ways my friends turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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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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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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A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
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Our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
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