A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
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Helen KellerThe Simplest Way to Be Happy (1933)
About Helen Keller
Deafblind author, lecturer and advocate for people with disabilities. (1880-1968)
More from Helen Keller
- Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.The Open Door (1957)
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Optimism (1903)
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched but just felt in the heart.Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (1891)
- 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's Journal (1938)
- Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.Optimism (1903)
- Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.As quoted by Joseph P. Lash in Helen and Teacher (1980)
More quotes on happiness
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.Aristotle
- How many things I have no need of!Socrates
- Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.Socrates
- They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.Confucius
- He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.Lao Tzu
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