Adversity Quote by Helen Keller

“We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.”

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He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

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I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!

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The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be…

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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult…

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When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow people, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brother- and sisterhood, until the great mass…

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I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The…

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If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession…

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

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Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.

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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

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