Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller (1880–1968) lost her hearing and sight at nineteen months. With her teacher Anne Sullivan she learned to read and write, and became the first deafblind person to earn a university degree. She wrote and lectured all her life, campaigning for disability rights and for women's suffrage.
About this theme: Friendship
Aristotle gave friendship two books of the Nicomachean Ethics, more than he gave justice, and distinguished three kinds: friendship for use, for pleasure, and for the friend's own sake. The first two last as long as the reason lasts; the third is rare and slow, and the only one he considered complete.
More by Helen Keller
- Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.
- Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
More on Friendship
- No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.— Charles Dickens
- A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.— Elbert Hubbard
- Associate with people who are likely to improve you.— Seneca
- A friend is, as it were, a second self.— Cicero
- If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.— Booker T. Washington