Helen Keller

"I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness."

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Source: Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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Helen Keller

Helen Keller

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Helen Keller was a pioneering author and activist who overcame deafness and blindness to advocate for education and social justice.

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"Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life."

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