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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.
Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!
Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.
THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.