Helen Keller Quotes
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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 which has been opened for us.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
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So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
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A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
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The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.
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The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
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Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
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We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
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I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.
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It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
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...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
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Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.
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If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
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There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.
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I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.
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Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.
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It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.
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I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
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The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.
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Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.