The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
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.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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.
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.
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
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.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
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.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
