"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." ― Helen Keller Topic(s): Patience Tags: could, learn, never More From Helen Keller "The highest result of education is tolerance." "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." "Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged." More In Patience "Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates."― Bill Brandt "I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer."― Jenny Agutter "God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction."― Richard Cecil