Helen Keller

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

Life is an adventure or nothing

Be heroes in an army of construction.

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

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.

Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.