Helen Keller Quotes
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If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!
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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
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Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
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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. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.
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What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
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I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
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Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.
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Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.
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The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
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I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
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That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.
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Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
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Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.
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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
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What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea
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When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?
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The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.