Occupation: Author Birth: June 27, 1880 Death: June 1, 1968
I am only one, But still I am one..
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democra….
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vai….
It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in ….
When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enou….
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the d….
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse..
THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me.
I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far bett….
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you w….
The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination..
I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, t….
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves..
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood..
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity..
We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial..
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough..
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges..
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happ….
Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances..
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them..