“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my bookfriends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their large loves and heavenly charities.”
Helen Keller (verified)
The Story of My Life (Primary source)
The Story of My Life is Keller’s landmark autobiography detailing her childhood transformation from isolation to communication through Anne Sullivan’s teaching. It chronicles her journey from darkness to intellectual awakening, becoming a classic testament to human potential and perseverance.
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. It be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, them it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“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.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (unverified)“That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Without justice courage is weak.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.”
— Tony Hoare (verified, secondary source)