Nothing can be done without hope and confidence...

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved...


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...


Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged...


Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood...


Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence...


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 opened for us...


***
[Quotes of Helen Keller, Great American Author and Thinker (1880 - 1968)]
[Courtesy of www.brainyquote.com :
Photo: Courtesy of kamera-obscura.net/photoblog/images]