truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sat 17 March 2007 8:32 pm

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sat 17 March 2007 8:33 pm

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sat 17 March 2007 8:34 pm

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sat 17 March 2007 8:36 pm

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sat 17 March 2007 8:37 pm

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sat 17 March 2007 8:38 pm

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

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sat 17 March 2007 8:39 pm

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller