“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.”

— Helen Keller · Friendship quote

Author, activist · 1880 – 1968

American author and activist who, deaf and blind from childhood, became a renowned advocate for disability rights.

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.