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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.
I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.
I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream
We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.
I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.
Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.