Quotes - Thomas Lilly (Beckley, WV) Showing 1-30 of 30

#1

“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 which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

22812 likes

#2

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

13324 likes

#3

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

tags: by-anne-sullivan, emotions, feelings

5555 likes

#4

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door

tags: carpe-diem, challenges, enjoy-life, life, risk-taking

2664 likes

#5

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
― Helen Keller

tags: blindness, death, faith, inspirational, wisdom

1906 likes

#6

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

tags: joy, meekness

1409 likes

#7

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
― Helen Keller

tags: motivational

1317 likes

#8

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― Helen Keller

tags: collaboration, life, teamwork

1248 likes

#9

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
― Helen Keller

tags: character

1249 likes

#10

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
― Helen Keller

1095 likes

#11

“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
― Helen Keller

tags: effort, optimism, overcoming

911 likes

#12

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

915 likes

#13

“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
― Helen Keller

tags: lily-white-cleats

682 likes

#14

“The highest result of education is tolerance”
― Helen Keller

tags: tolerance

603 likes

#15

“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
― Helen Keller

tags: inspirational

569 likes

#16

“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

tags: inspirational

538 likes

#17

“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.”
― Helen Keller

tags: indifference, wrong-direction

521 likes

#18

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
― Hellen Keller

tags: self, truth

504 likes

#19

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

tags: life, thinking

510 likes

#20

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
― Helen Keller

tags: change, life, perseverance, risk

433 likes

#21

“Literature is my Utopia”
― Helen Keller

tags: books, literature, reading, words

383 likes

#22

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
― Helen Keller

401 likes

#23

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content”
― Helen Keller

tags: life

355 likes

#24

“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”
― Helen Keller

tags: happiness, life, love

326 likes

#25

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
― Helen Keller

tags: educator, inspirational

305 likes

#26

“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.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door

tags: challenges, inspirational, life

351 likes

#27

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
― Helen Keller

275 likes

#28

“Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.”
― Helen Keller

261 likes

#29

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

256 likes

#30

“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

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