We have seen that the world’s philosophers — the Sayers of the Word — were optimists; so also are the men of action and achievement — the Doers of th… - Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

... i feel that her being is inseparable from my own, and that the footsteps of my life are in hers. all the best of me belong to her, there is not a talent or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not awakened by her loving touch....

about her teacher: ann sulivan.

Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts, “the source and centre of all minds,