Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
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: Happiness
Few subjects have been written about so much with so little agreement. For Aristotle happiness was not a feeling but a way of living — eudaimonia, visible only when a life is viewed whole. For the Epicureans it was the absence of disturbance. For the Stoics it was a consequence of virtue and never a target. None of these is the same as being in a good mood, yet that substitution is the one most often made.
More by Helen Keller
- Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
- 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 Happiness
- The earth laughs in flowers.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
- True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.— Seneca
- He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.— Lao Tzu
- Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.— Epictetus
- He is richest who is content with the least.— Socrates