“But 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.”
Helen Keller (verified)
Optimism (Primary source)
Optimism presents Keller’s philosophy that despite her deafness and blindness, true happiness comes from inner faith rather than material circumstances. She argues optimism enables achievement and is essential for human progress and personal fulfillment.
“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)“Grief too will make us idealists.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (unverified)“Money and good manners make the gentleman.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“When the wine enters, out goes the truth.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)