"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification,..." - Quote by Helen Keller
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
More by Helen Keller
“Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!”
“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.”
“I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.”
More on Happiness
“If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.”
“Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.”
“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”
More on Purpose
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
“You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain”
“The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away.”