Helen Keller on Mother's Day
1880–1968 United States
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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.
Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.
Optimism (1903)
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.
I remember the morning that I first asked the meaning of the word, "love."
Now, so far as I can judge, self-love is the root of all evil
I thought it strange that my teacher could not show me love.
Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.