Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.
Helen KellerThe highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Helen KellerSurely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
Helen Keller