I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable forceโฆthis is my religion of optimism.
Helen KellerIn times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.
Helen KellerWhen you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
Helen KellerIt gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
Helen KellerAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
Helen Keller