“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
“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.”
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
“Ideas without action are useless.”
“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.”
“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”
“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
“Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!”
“The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.”
“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.”
“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.”
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
“Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.”
“There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.”
“Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.”
“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.”
“My friends have made the story of my life.”
“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.”
“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
“We should respect all people.”
“You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.”
“Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.”
“The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream.”
“A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.”
“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”
“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.”
“Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.”
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
“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.”
“I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.”
“Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.”
“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
“Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.”
“Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.”
“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.”
“The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, – the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.”
“My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.”
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
“Fear: the best way out is through.”
“Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”
“Literature is my Utopia.”
“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.”
“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.”
“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”
“What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.”
“If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.”
“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.”
“Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.”
“When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.”
“I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.”
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
“True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.”
“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”
“Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.”
“The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.”
“Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.”
“Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.”
“We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.”
“One should never count the years – one should instead count one’s interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I’m glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.”
“To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.”
“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”
“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
“Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.”
“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”
“The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.”
“Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge – broad, deep knowledge – is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.”
“How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.”
“What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.”
“Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.”
“No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.”
“If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.”
“The inferiority of women is man-made.”
“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”
“What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?”
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