Helen Keller Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Cancer, Struggle, Blessing

• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

• Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

  Helen Keller

  Cheating, Evil, Optimism

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

• We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

  Helen Keller

  Grief, Losing A Loved One, Loss

• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

• The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

  Helen Keller

  Civilization, Suffering, Degrees

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.80, American Foundation for the Blind

• I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.

  Helen Keller

  Fear, Blessing, Sight

• Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

  Helen Keller

  Suffering, Alleviate, Satisfied

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.74, American Foundation for the Blind

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