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 highest result of education is tolerance.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind...

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind...

Literature is my utopia

Literature is my utopia

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes...

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes...

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes...

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes...

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well...

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well...

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels...

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels...

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work...

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work...

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

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

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and...

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and...

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...

The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt...

The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt...

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained...

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained...

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.

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...

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more...

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more...

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl....

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl....

Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated...

Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated...

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a...

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...