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“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 vain.”

We Bereaved (1929)

“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”

“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.”

“Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.”

Helen Keller book The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”

Helen Keller book The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life, Part III, Ch. 5: Literary Style

“While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.”

“There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.”

“It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…”

Source: The Open Door

“Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.”

Helen Keller book The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

Helen Keller book Optimism

Optimism (1903)
Variant: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement

“My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.”

“The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.”

“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”

“There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.”

“I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!”

“… our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.”

Helen Keller book The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”

Source: The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887 1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy

“The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.”

Helen Keller book The World I Live In

Source: The World I Live In

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

The Simplest Way to be Happy (1933)