Character of the week

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Here is some of the wisdom she left us.

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

“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

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

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.”

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

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

“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.”

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

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