Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them
master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

我就是這樣從生命本身學習，汲取教訓。一開始我只是一小團可能性，全賴我老師將我的可能性打開和發展。她一來，發生在我生活中的一切事物都讓我喜愛、愉快，而且充滿意義。從那時起，她決不錯過任何一次機會，指教我認識萬事萬物中都有的優點；她也從來不感到厭倦，始終盡可能以思想、行動和榜樣教導我，使我贏得生命的甜美和意義。 

Thus I learned from life itself. At the beginning I was only a little mass of possibilities. It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them. When she came, everything about me breathed of love and joy and was full of meaning. She has never since let pass an opportunity to point out the beauty that is in everything, nor has she ceased trying in thought and action and example to make my life sweet and useful.

About Helen Keller: 
Helen Keller Biography
Helen Keller Biography (short and easy read)
Helen Keller Statue Unveiled in Capitol ( Sept 7, 2009)
Helen Keller is the first disabled person honored with a statue in the Capitol Rotunda.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Helen Keller began writing The Story of My Life in 1902, when she was 22 years old and still a student at Radcliffe College, the sister school of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Story of My Life
海倫‧凱勒 ：The Story of My Life