The Story Of My Life Quotes
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature."
"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."
"My physical limitations are forgotten—my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!"
"The highest chords he strikes are those of reason and self-love."
"I cannot understand why the stories of the Greeks should have been so full of charm for me, and those of the Bible so devoid of interest."
"I am content that others should be wiser than I."
"It was the Iliad that made Greece my paradise."
"I suppose this sort of Pilgrim's Progress was justified by the end; but it seemed interminable to me."
"I like many writers for many reasons—Carlyle for his ruggedness and scorn of shams; Wordsworth, who teaches the oneness of man and nature."
"I did not study nor analyze them—I did not know whether they were well written or not; I never thought about style or authorship."
"But college is not the universal Athens I thought it was."
"In the same manner I can also tell when I am pulling against the current."
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
"Those are red-letter days in our lives when we meet people who thrill us like a fine poem."
"I am too happy in this world to think much about the future."
"I shall be very gentle and patient to my new little brother."
"The more we love the more near we are to God and His Love."
"In God's beautiful world, he must have heard love's sweet replying."
"Yesterday I thought for the first time what a beautiful thing motion was, and it seemed to me that everything was trying to get near to God."
"Every day I find out something which makes me glad."
"I enjoy my singing lessons with Dr. Humason more than I can say."
"I am glad, very glad that such a kind, beautiful lady loves me."
"The more I learn of them, the more kindness I find."
"Love always finds its way to an imprisoned soul, and leads it out into the world of freedom and intelligence!"
"The thought of their gentle courtesy and genuine kindness brings a warm glow of joy and gratitude to my heart."
"I have my books, and I have the certainty that something sweet and good will come to me in this great city."
"I am confident that I could go on writing themes like those I have written, and I suppose I should get through the course with fairly good marks; but this sort of literary patch-work has lost all interest for me."
"Henceforth I am resolved to be myself, to live my own life and write my own thoughts when I have any."
"When the Indiana visited Halifax, we were invited to go on board, and she sent her own launch for us."
"I doubt if any one who enjoys the wondrous privilege of seeing can have any conception of the boon such a publication as you contemplate would be to the sightless."
"I hope that [life] isn't too practical, for if she is, I'm afraid she'll miss a great deal of pleasure."
"I suppose if you included his screaming, crowing, whimpering, grunting, squalling, with occasional kicks, in his conversation, it might be regarded as fluent—even eloquent."
"As soon as a thing was done, a definite goal passed, the teacher did not always look back and describe the way she had come."
"It's only fair to the child, anyhow, and it saves you much unnecessary trouble."
"As I have said before, she is wonderfully bright and active and as quick as lightning in her movements."
"Like her baby cousin, she expresses whole sentences by single words."
"The solitude of the place sets one dreaming."
"This desire to repeat what has been told her shows a marked advance in the development of her intellect."
"She knows about 300 words now and a great many common idioms."
"It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind."
"My mind is full of ideas; but I cannot get them into working shape."
"Her mind grows through its ceaseless activity."
"The little fellow who whirls his 'New York Flyer' round the nursery, making 'horseshoe curves' undreamed of by less imaginative engineers, is concentrating his whole soul on his toy locomotive."
"The weather is scorching. We need rain badly."
"It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency."
"The rapid development of Helen's mind is beautiful to watch."
"She is as triumphant over the conquest of a sentence as a general who has captured the enemy's stronghold."
"Helen's dependence on me for almost everything makes me strong and glad."
"Not a day passes that she does not learn many new words."
"Some of these words have successive steps of meaning."
"In investigating any subject there must occur at the beginning words and phrases which cannot be adequately understood."
"I regard my pupil as a free and active being."
"Never mind whether she understands each separate word of a sentence or not."
"In selecting books for Helen to read, I have never chosen them with reference to her deafness and blindness."
"She always reads such books as seeing and hearing children of her age read and enjoy."
"She was familiar with the words of the last sentence, and was delighted when allowed to act them out."
"I am convinced that Helen's use of English is due largely to her familiarity with books."
"She often reads for two or three hours in succession, and then lays aside her book reluctantly."
"I think it means that the brave Britons were not discouraged."
"She prefers intellectual to manual occupations."
"More than two years ago a cousin taught her the telegraph alphabet."
"Children ask profound questions, but they often receive shallow answers."
"It is a strange truth that fairies and children never complain of the toil and trouble they take in search of amusement."
"As they played and loitered in the forest until noon, they found the reason why they were told to hasten."
"The idle fairies left them there until noon, at which time Mr. Sun is the strongest."
"The fairies were so busy and merry over their frolic that they forgot all about their errand."
"King Frost frowned and looked very angry at first."
"My treasures are not wasted if they make little children happy."
"The bright eyes of King Sun had spied out the jars among the leaves."
"The delicate glass began to melt and break, and before long every jar and vase was cracked or broken."
"The disobedient fairies were too frightened to notice the beauty of the trees."
"Their fears were well founded, for their long absence had alarmed the king."