To rise above the modifications of your mind, when you cease your mind, when you cease to be a part of your mind, that is yoga.
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. - Helen Keller
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. - Helen Keller
The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be. - Helen Keller
The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark. - Helen Keller
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. - Helen Keller
To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted. - Helen Keller
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. - Helen Keller
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. - Helen Keller
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery. - Helen Keller
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. - Helen Keller
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. - Helen Keller
We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more. - Helen Keller
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization. - Helen Keller
What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is. - Helen Keller
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. - Helen Keller
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller
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