"I am only one; but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
I will not refuse to do something I can do."
~ Helen Keller
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
~ Helen Keller
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding.
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
~ Helen Keller
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it,
then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
~ Helen Keller
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
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
~ Helen Keller
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