When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Quote by Helen Keller
Helen Keller was an author, lecturer, and crusader for the handicapped. Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She lost her sight and hearing at the age of nineteen months to an illness now believed to have been scarlet fever. Five years later, on the advice of Alexander Graham Bell, her parents applied to the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston for a teacher, and from that school hired Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Through Sullivan’s extraordinary instruction, the little girl learned to understand and communicate with the world around her. She went on to acquire an excellent education and to become an important influence on the treatment of the blind and deaf.
REFLECTION:
- Has one door closed?
- Are you so focused on the closed door you have not seen what awaits you?
- What new door has opened?