We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
HELEN KELLERSelf-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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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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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
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Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.
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If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
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While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.
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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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The highest result of education is tolerance.
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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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Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
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I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
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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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Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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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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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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The mind is as big as the universe.
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It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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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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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
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