“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
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)“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (unverified)“He that never eats too much, will never be lazy.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (unverified)“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)