I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
Things must be felt with the heart.
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.
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.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.
Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
Fear: the best way out is through.
The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
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