Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free. - Helen Keller
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. - Helen Keller
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. - Helen Keller
So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied. - Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. - Helen Keller
The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be. - Helen Keller
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark. - Helen Keller
To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted. - Helen Keller
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
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