While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.
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.
I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
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.
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.
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