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US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)

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Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

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.

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.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

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

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.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

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

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.

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

No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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

When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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