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Helen Keller

1880 - 1968. American writer and social activist, deaf and blind from early childhood.

1. "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."

categories: Happiness

2. "To know the history of philosophy is to know that the highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists."

categories: Optimism and Hope

3. "The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy."

categories: Optimism and Hope

4. "The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."

categories: History and Nations

5. "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

categories: Joy and Sadness

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

categories: Beauty and Ugliness

7. "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."

categories: Intellect, Judgement

8. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."

categories: Optimism and Hope

9. "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."

categories: Happiness -:- Loyalty and Betrayal

10. "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

categories: Life and Death -:- Bravery and Fear

11. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."

categories: Joy and Sadness

12. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."

categories: Joy and Sadness

13. "It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good."

source: "The Simplest Way to be Happy"

categories: Happiness -:- Good and Evil

14. "Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision."

categories: Various -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

15. "I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do."

categories: Various

16. "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

categories: Power and Weakness -:- Work and Laziness

17. "Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life."

source: "The Simplest Way to be Happy"

categories: Happiness

18. "A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."

source: "The Simplest Way to be Happy"

categories: Happiness

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