"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."

Keller, Helen on opportunity
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"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."

Keller, Helen on perseverance
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."

Keller, Helen on attitude
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"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."

Keller, Helen on risk
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"I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses."

Keller, Helen on sculptures   

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"Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived."

Keller, Helen on senses   

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

Keller, Helen on suffering
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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Keller, Helen on action
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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

Keller, Helen on character
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"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."

Keller, Helen on things and little things
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"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."

Keller, Helen on tolerance
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"The highest result of education is tolerance."

Keller, Helen on tolerance
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"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision."

Keller, Helen on vision
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"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious."

Keller, Helen on work   

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

Keller, Helen on colleges and universities
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"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

Keller, Helen on anger
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"To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs."

Aurobindo, Ghose on advice
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"Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one."

Ball, Ivern on advice
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"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."

Collins, Kitty O'neill on adversity
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

Eliot, George on adversity
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"Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."

Morley, Christopher on success   

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship   

"I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Our best history is still poetry."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on history and historians
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on kindness
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"If you shoot at a king you must kill him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on kings
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"The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on love
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Hayes, Helen on achievement
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."

Hoppe, C. on achievement
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"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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