"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.












Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
More Helen Keller quotes
"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not ...
"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
"There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lip...
"Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.
"Your success and happiness lie in you.
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
"It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or st...
"What is so sweet as to awake from a troubled dream and behold a beloved face smiling upon you? I love to believe that such shall be our awakening from...
"Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of sunbeams. Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and finger their graces of form, their delicate mutabi...
"Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happi...
"Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music,...
"For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm ...