HELEN KELLER

"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

"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."

"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome."

"The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil."

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

"As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."

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

"The mind is as big as the universe."

"So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied."

"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

"I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery."

"If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone."

"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."

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement ."

"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me."

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

"Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

"There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness."

"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness."

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

"The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination."

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow."

"Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people."

"Be happy with what you have while working for what you want."

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

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

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

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

"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."

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

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

"I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence."

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."

"Relationships are like Rome - difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness."

"Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."

"Your success and happiness lie in you."

"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."