Helen Keller Quotes
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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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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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...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
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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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Ideas without action are useless.
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Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
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The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
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The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
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We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."
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Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
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I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.
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THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me
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Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.
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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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There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.
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Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
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It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.
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Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
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Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.