♦ 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

♦ It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal – 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

♦ Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged – Helen Keller

♦ 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

♦ 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 – Helen Keller

♦ Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived – Helen Keller

♦ No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it – Helen Keller

♦ Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either – Helen Keller

♦ We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world – Helen Keller