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.
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Helen KellerWe Bereaved (1929)
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 change
- When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.Confucius
- The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius
- God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.Rumi
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.Henry David Thoreau
- Things do not change; we change.Henry David Thoreau
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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