Helen Adams Keller

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by theaggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of

Every modern war has had its root in exploitation

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

To think clearly without hurry or confusion To love everybody sincerely To act in everything with the highest motives To trust God unhesitatingly.

No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed

Literature is my utopia

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them but do not let them master you.Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

When one door to happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one which has been opened to us.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us

When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

courageous dignity in the presence of fate.

''Knowledge is power.'' Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.