A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
– Helen Keller
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- Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world. – Helen Keller
- One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. – Leonardo da Vinci
- Only inner-mastery can bring outer-mastery. – Bryant McGill
- An act of mastery is mastery itself. – Tehya Sky
- The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions. – Alfred Tennyson
- My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. – Helen Keller
- So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. – Helen Keller
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain
- Literature is my Utopia – Helen Keller
- More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free. – Helen Keller
- For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine. – Helen Keller
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- People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. – Helen Keller
- Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face. – Helen Keller
- As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. – Helen Keller
- One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. – Helen Keller
- We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering. – Helen Keller
- What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller
- The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction. – Helen Keller
- Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. – Helen Keller
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. – Helen Keller
- Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. – Helen Keller
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- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched- they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
- the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal. – Helen Keller
- There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark. – Helen Keller
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- Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. – Neal A Maxwell
- But the absence of tears wasn’t the same as an absence of feeling. – Lisa Kleypas
- The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence – Mantra
- Whoever thought up the phrase -˜Absence makes the heart grow founder’ was an idiot.Absence makes a bitch go crazy. -Elli, While Shea is Away – Toni Aleo