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“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities."”

Helen Keller book The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life (1903), Ch. 21

“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”

Helen Keller

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

Helen Keller

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

Helen Keller book The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

“My friends have made the story of my life.”

Helen Keller

“Your success and happiness lie in you.”

Helen Keller

“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”

Helen Keller

“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”

Helen Keller

Source: Light in my Darkness

“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”

Helen Keller

Quoted in Henry More: The Rational Theology of a Cambridge Plattonist (1962) by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, page 100.

“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”

Helen Keller book The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.”

Helen Keller

Source: We Bereaved

“Toleration … is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”

Helen Keller book The Story of My Life

Part III, Ch. 2: Personality http://books.google.com/books?id=zev1dMhB7C4C&amp;q=Toleration+&amp;quot;is+the+greatest+gift+of+the+mind+it+requires+the+same+effort+of+the+brain+that+it+takes+to+balance+oneself+on+a+bicycle&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PA295#v=onepage <br class="br">The Story of My Life (1903)