Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
HELEN KELLERAs selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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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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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.
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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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Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
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Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.
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Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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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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My friends have made the story of my life.
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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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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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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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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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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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I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
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