When one door to happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one which has been opened to us.
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Keller
Character is like the fire within the flint-latent until it is struck out of the stone. Observing the flint stone, who would think it contained the possibility of light And so it is with the dark experiences of life. And it is only us, individually, that decide what that darkness is, even without quite knowing the reasons for its being. And then we must learn to let light enter. When they are met with courage, they give out sparks of spiritual light.
Helen Keller
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen Keller
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.
Helen Keller
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.
Helen Keller
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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