Helen Keller Quotes
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.
Helen Keller
Quotes to Explore
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.
Said Nursi
The learning of the gentleman enters through his ears, fastens to his heart, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. ... The learning of the petty person enters through his ears and passes out his mouth. From mouth to ears is only four inches—how could it be enough to improve a whole body much larger than that?
Xun Kuang
Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. The world is none other than the mind. The mind is none other than the heart. Therefore the entire story finishes in the heart.
Ramana Maharshi
You can tirelessly keep on reading the same author, revere, admire, praise him, exalt him to the skies, know and recite each of his sentences by heart, and yet remain completely unaffected by him, as if he had never demanded anything of you and not said anything at all.
Elias Canetti
Distant lover, ooo, sugarHow can you treat my heart so mean and cruel?Didn't you know, sugar, that I dreamOf what I spent with you?I treasure it like it was a precious jewel, oh baby.Lord have mercy!
Marvin Gaye
Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.
Edward Young
Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like women,” and more time acting like Jesus.
Rachel Grace Held
Take advantage of the opportunities that come before you in life.
Ayelet Shaked
It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
Buzz Aldrin
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.
Helen Keller
