Helen Keller
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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.
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.
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
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.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.Collection: Inspirational
I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.Collection: Success
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Cancer
The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.Collection: Dream
There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.Collection: Silence
You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.Collection: Inspirational
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Life
Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.Collection: Mistake
Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.Collection: Heart
We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.Collection: Trying
Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.Collection: White
God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Collection: Running
Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.Collection: Inspirational
I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.Collection: Believe
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.Collection: Inspirational
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.Collection: Song
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.Collection: Education
Words are the mind's wings, are they not?Collection: Wings
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.Collection: Ignorance
The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.Collection: Heart
Life is an adventure or nothingCollection: Adventure
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.Collection: Mind
I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.Collection: Flames
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.Collection: Death
Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.Collection: Success
Ideas without action are useless.Collection: Ideas
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.Collection: Cheating
There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.Collection: Race
Fear: the best way out is through.Collection: Way
Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.Collection: Hands
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.Collection: Work