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“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Truth is one, paths are many.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“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

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”
― Helen Keller

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement ”
― Helen Keller

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
― Helen Keller

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
― Helen Keller

“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”
― Helen Keller

“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 something that I can do.”
― Edward Everett Hale

“When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.”
― Helen Keller

“I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind of the child.”
― Anne Sullivan

“Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
― Helen Keller

“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”
― Anne Sullivan

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”
― Anne Sullivan

“If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Try a little harder to be a little better.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“You have not failed until you quit trying.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley