Helen's+word's


 * __Her writing piece__**

The following are poems and quotations that Helen Keller wrote, not on a computer, but on paper.
 * 1) The world is full of trouble, but as long as people are undoing trouble, we have a pretty, good world
 * 2) I can not remember how I felt when light came out of my eyes.I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why day did not come.
 * 3) They took away what should have been my eyes but I remembered Milton paradise. They took away what should have been my ears but beethoven came and wiped away my tears. They took away what should have been my tongue but I talked to god when I was young. He would not let them take away my soul- possesing that, I still possess the whole.
 * 4) Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
 * 5) Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
 * 6) Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
 * 7) Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.
 * 8) It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
 * 9) To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
 * 10) True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
 * 11) Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
 * 12) One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar.
 * 13) Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
 * 14) Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
 * 15) I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
 * 16) It is for us to pray not for tasks eaqual to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks.
 * 17) I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
 * 18) 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 that has opened before us.