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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”
Helen Keller

“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 Keller

 

Recent stories by and about Helen Keller

A story about Helen Keller

I have read books and seen movies about this amazing woman. She passed only a short time before I was born. I hope to meet her again someday in heaven.

Why I admire Helen Keller

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)

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

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller

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


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