In the words of Helen Keller:
To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
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.
Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.
We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.
I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.
The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.
Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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.
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.
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 hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
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