“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty t...” — Helen Keller Quote

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

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.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

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.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.