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.
HELEN KELLERWhen 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.
HELEN KELLEREverything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
HELEN KELLERThe struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
HELEN KELLERAvoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
HELEN KELLERSecurity is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
HELEN KELLERLife is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
HELEN KELLERBelieve, 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.
HELEN KELLERCollege isn’t the place to go for ideas.
HELEN KELLERLife is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
HELEN KELLERIt was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.
HELEN KELLERFor one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
HELEN KELLERKnowledge is love and light and vision.
HELEN KELLERLiterature is my Utopia
HELEN KELLERThe country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
HELEN KELLERDo not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
HELEN KELLERMany people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience.
HELEN KELLER