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If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep.

It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things.

As I look back on my struggle to write that little story, it seems to me that I must have had a prophetic vision of the good that would come of the undertaking, or I should surely have failed.

Every struggle is a victory.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way.

Had it not been for the persistent encouragement of Miss Sullivan, I think I should have given up trying to write altogether.

But I did not dream that that interview would be the door through which I should pass from darkness into light, from isolation to friendship, companionship, knowledge, love.

I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon.

Courage returns as we gaze; when we see what has been, we doubt no more that it can be again.

To sleep is to strain and purify our emotions, to deposit the mud of life, to calm the fever of the soul

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as it were redeemed.

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

In spite of failures, cooperative schemes went on, some of the same men appearing in one after another with irrepressible optimism.

Keenly conscious of the social confusion all about us and the hard economic struggle, we at times believed that the very struggle itself might become a source of strength.

There are some days when we need a hand. There are other days when we're called on to lend one.

Fatigue yourself, but once, to utter exhaustion, and to the end of life you shall not recover the former vigour of your frame.

Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain bitter point, and the heart loses its life for ever.

The result was that I gradually, but completely, emerged from my habitual depression, and was never again subject to it.

Now to keep faithful to the pure Counsellor, and under trying Circumstances suffer Adversity for Righteousness Sake, in this there is a Reward.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The labour of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and thus makes the poor happy.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship

I will try, Mother, I truly will. But you must help me, remind me, and keep me from flying out.

It’s highly virtuous to say we’ll be good, but we can’t do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way.