03/08/2011
''I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light
but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books.
It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense,
and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing.
The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.''
''Believe, when you are most unhappy,
that there is something for you to do in the world.
So long as you can sweeten another's pain,
life is not in vain.''
''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.''
''Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.''
How is it possible that a woman who was blind
and deaf from the age of 1 1/2 can be so full
of encouragement and love of life? How is it
that we who don't suffer her afflictions don't see
life in as positive a light as she did? Her beautiful words and motivational perspective are hard
to match, and her love of life shines as a model
for us all. If I can feel half as positive about
life as her words speak, I'll be a very happy
person indeed. Thank you, Helen Keller
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