Helen Keller Quotes
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When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.
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It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
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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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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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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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We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.
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My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.
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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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Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
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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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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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One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.
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I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
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Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.
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A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
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Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
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True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart
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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.