Helen Keller

“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”

“To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”

“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.”

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”

“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.”

“You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere.”

“And you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.”

“Once I knew only darkness and stillness. My life was without past or future. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”

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

“The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”

“Look to the past with gratitude, to the future with confidence.”

“It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.”

“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”

“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.”

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another.”

“But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.”