"The breakage and agony rending us today..." - Quote by Helen Keller
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.
More by Helen Keller
More on Adversity
“It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you.”
“Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”
“I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.”
More on Transformation
“If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.”
“Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.”
“The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).”