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.

Quote by Helen Keller

Topics: Mankind Quotes, Optimism Quotes

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no...

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no...

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do...

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do...

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are...

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are...

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is...

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is...

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do...

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do...

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of...

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of...

Doing your best means never stop trying.

Doing your best means never stop trying.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty...

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty...

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy...

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy...

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference...

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference...

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for...

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for...

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must...

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must...

It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us...

It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us...

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the...

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the...

Literature is my utopia

Literature is my utopia

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored,...

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored,...