Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows
American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye
What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar
Silence is the best cure for the malady of anger
Many quote knowledge, but few note it in mind
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry
The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self
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