To rise above the modifications of your mind, when you cease your mind, when you cease to be a part of your mind, that is yoga.
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 matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. - 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
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - 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
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. - 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 chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them. - Helen Keller