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181 " True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose "
― Helen Keller
182 " I am beginning to suspect all elaborate & special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the suposition that every child is an idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... "
183 " الحياة إما أن تكون مغامرة ذات مخاطر جسيمة أو لا شيء على الإطلاق. "
184 " Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was. "Light! give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. "
― Helen Keller , The Story of My Life
185 " Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. "
186 " Be happy with what you have while working for what you want. "
187 " Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out. "
188 " The marvelous richness of human experience would losesomething of rewarding joy if there were no limitations toovercome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful ifthere were no dark valleys to traverse. "
189 " 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. "
190 " when one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one the one which has opened for us. "
191 " The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond our senses. "
― Helen Keller , The World I Live In
192 " It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. "
193 " Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. "
194 " عندما يغلق باب للسعادة، يفتح آخر، ولكن في كثير من الأحيان ننظر طويلا الى الباب المغلق الى الدرجة التي لا نرى فيها الباب الذي فتح لنا. "
195 " The mind is as big as the universe. "
196 " But the examinations are the chief bugbears of my college life. Although I have faced them many times and cast them down and made them bite the dust, yet they rise again and menace me with pale looks, until like Bob Acres I feel my courage oozing out at my finger ends. The days before these ordeals take place are spent in cramming your mind with mystic formula and indigestible dates—unpalatable diets, until you wish that books and science and you were buried in the depths of the sea.At last the dreaded hour arrives, and you are a favoured being indeed if you feel prepared, and are able at the right time to call to your standard thoughts that will aid you in that supreme effort. It happens too often that your trumpet call is unheeded. It is most perplexing and exasperating that just at the moment when you need your memory and a nice sense of discrimination, these faculties take to themselves wings and fly away. The facts you have garnered with such infinite trouble invariably fail you at a pinch. "
197 " There is one universal religion, Helen—the religion of love. Love your Heavenly Father with your whole heart and soul, love every child of God as much as ever you can, and remember that the possibilities of good are greater than the possibilities of evil; and you have the key to Heaven. "
198 " Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves. "
199 " The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. "
200 " The only lightless dark is the night of ingnorance and insensibility. "