Helen Keller Quotes
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Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
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True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
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When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.
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Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
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When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.
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Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
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I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.
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If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
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I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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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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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse
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If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand, if we believe that the earth is ours, and that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields because the Artist in our souls glorifies creation. Surely, it gives dignity to life to believe that we are born into this world for noble ends, and that we have a higher destiny than can be accomplished within the narrow limits of this physical life.
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It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
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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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Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
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We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.
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Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.
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True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart
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A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.