

“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.”
We Bereaved · 1929
Traced to We Bereaved (1929).
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“Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.”
Helen Keller
The Simplest Way to be Happy · 1933
verified“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
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Optimism · 1903
verified“It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.”
Helen Keller
The Simplest Way to be Happy · 1933
verified“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
Helen Keller
The Simplest Way to be Happy · 1933
verified“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
Helen Keller
Optimism · 1903
verified“No doubt the reason is that 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.”
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Helen Keller's Journal · 1938
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“You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Speech at a prayer meeting, New Delhi · 1947
verified“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
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Martin Luther King Jr.
The Future of Integration, address at Oberlin College · 1964
verified“The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to William H. Herndon · 1848
verified“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to Isham Reavis · 1855
verified“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
Abraham Lincoln
Speech in the United States House of Representatives · 1848
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