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The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
I really enjoyed reading this book. Helen Keller was an incredible woman, very bright and loving despite the difficult hardships she faced. I can't believe she wrote this only in her twenties--in the future I'd like to read another biography with a sketch on her entire life. This book also included letters. I found it fascinating to see how she learned and progressed, and so quickly too. The letters did get a little old after a while, and I mostly skimmed the last 30 pages or so because of it. But I did find some things that I really enjoyed which I shall include now:
"Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, 'There is joy in self-forgetfulness.' So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness."
"I used to think--when I was small, and before I could read--that everybody was always happy, and at first it made me very sad to know about pain and great sorrow; but now I know that we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
"When people do very wrong and hurt animals and treat children unkindly God is grieved, but what will he do to them to teach them to be pitiful and loving? I think he will tell them how dearly He loves them and that He wants them to be good and happy..."
"I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities. Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser and learned how to use them rightly."
"It seems to me that there is in each of us a capacity to comprehend the impressions and emotions which have been experienced by mankind from the beginning. Each individual has a subconscious memory of the green earth and murmuring waters, and blindness and deafness cannot rob him of this gift from past generations. this inherited capacity is a sort of sixth sense--a soul-sense which sees, hears, feels, all in one."
This book took me an insanely long time to read because I was distracted by school and placed it on the back burner...but it was inspiring and fascinating book. I said it before and I'll say it again: she is an incredible woman.
"Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, 'There is joy in self-forgetfulness.' So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness."
"I used to think--when I was small, and before I could read--that everybody was always happy, and at first it made me very sad to know about pain and great sorrow; but now I know that we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
"When people do very wrong and hurt animals and treat children unkindly God is grieved, but what will he do to them to teach them to be pitiful and loving? I think he will tell them how dearly He loves them and that He wants them to be good and happy..."
"I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities. Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser and learned how to use them rightly."
"It seems to me that there is in each of us a capacity to comprehend the impressions and emotions which have been experienced by mankind from the beginning. Each individual has a subconscious memory of the green earth and murmuring waters, and blindness and deafness cannot rob him of this gift from past generations. this inherited capacity is a sort of sixth sense--a soul-sense which sees, hears, feels, all in one."
This book took me an insanely long time to read because I was distracted by school and placed it on the back burner...but it was inspiring and fascinating book. I said it before and I'll say it again: she is an incredible woman.