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Inspirational Quotes from Helen Keller

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“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”

“The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

“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.”

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”

“My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.”

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”

“I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

“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’ lips my happiness.”

“For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to–a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.”

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Fill Your Heart With Beautiful Things

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“…fill your minds with those things that are good and that deserve praise: things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and honorable.” – Philippian 4:8, GNT

We need to be filled with the good and the beautiful. We need to be reminded of what makes life worth living for and what makes our dreams worth reaching for. The darker the night, the brighter the stars must shine. The deeper the sorrow, the greater must be the joy we need to overcome it.

With God, let us cling to the truth that all shall be well and all shall be beautiful in the end. If goodness has not yet succeeded, then it is not yet the end.

Arise therefore from the ashes of your despair and look towards the future God has in store for you. Claim the eternal treasure that could never be surpassed by fleeting things. Fill your heart with beautiful things which none could ever take away from you.

“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 task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.” – Helen Keller

You may also want to read:
The Skill of Catching Joy
I Will Smile Again!
God Wants Me To Be Happy
Inspirational Quotes on Beauty

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To Give Without Conditions

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“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Something happens when you give without asking, without conditions, without reservation. Something happens when you give with a smile instead of a frown, and when you give with a prayer instead of a curse.

When you give a coat to a grown man, you may not know that he has a child who is sick and who badly needed the warmth of your gift. When you give food to a beggar, you may not know it, but the little that you have given could even be shared to feed his neighbors who also starve.

Yours could be the only hand that could reach someone. Your trust could be the only light that could give hope to someone who has been rejected all his life.

We don’t always have to know everything that happens with our gift. It is enough that we have given with love and that we trust in the God whose blessings never run out.

“…for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.” – Matthew 25:35-36, WEB

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When Nothing Shall Stand In Your Way

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“…delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” -Psalm 37:4, WEB-BE

To be deprived of good things all our lives could make us reach a point when we finally want to have things our way. Not that we don’t care about others, but we want others also to care about us. Deep within us, there may be that great need to be loved and to be provided for.

We must be careful though not to let this great thirst cloud our better judgment. For not everything we want could really be good for us. And being deprived of some things could be a great blessing in disguise.

Our healing then is not to have things our way all the time in this life, but to be provided more and more with things that are really good for us. We need to be able to let love enter in so we could be nourished from within our hearts.

Someday in God’s time, when things are made new, when every desire has already been purified, we shall finally have all that we want. At that time, nothing shall stand in our way because our desires shall finally meet with the perfect desires of our loving God.

“For, in regard to that little of your will which you now willingly forsake, you shall forever have your will in Heaven. For there you shall find all that you will, all that you can desire. There you shall enjoy the possession of every good without fear of losing it… There no one shall resist you, no one shall complain of you, none shall obstruct you, nothing shall stand in your way: but every good that you desire shall be present at the same time, and shall replenish all your affections, and fully satiate them.” – Thomas Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

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You Can Give More Than Money

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“You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
-Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Don’t ever think that you have nothing to give. When you listen to what people around you really need, you’d be surprised at how much you can still give away.

For many, all it takes is just the presence of one person to ease their suffering. A listening ear, a warm embrace, a generous smile. We are more than able to offer these to our fellow men.

Even when we are weak or are suffering ourselves, we can still offer our understanding and our prayer, and O, how valuable is that prayer!

The money we give away can be easily spent. But the love we give is multiplied and is passed on to bless other hearts.

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Teresa