So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. Helen Keller More Quotes by Helen Keller More Quotes From Helen Keller The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by. Helen Keller light dark heart Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation. Helen Keller balance race people Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities. Helen Keller possibility each-day hands The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision. Helen Keller vision sight world 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. Helen Keller menace work trying Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. Helen Keller success inspiring happiness What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. Helen Keller self teacher retirement My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. Helen Keller stories beautiful friendship This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks. Helen Keller gratitude tasks sorrow It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. Helen Keller vision motivational inspirational We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth. Helen Keller ignorance self appreciation If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation. Helen Keller encouragement happiness inspirational 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. Helen Keller god dark happy The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure. Helen Keller ideas We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering. Helen Keller losing-a-loved-one grief loss For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire. Helen Keller struggle running fall 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. Helen Keller together men fall Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. 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. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself. Helen Keller self mean believe A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea Helen Keller simple sea children Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again. Helen Keller able tomorrow feels
