Helen Keller Quotes
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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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Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
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It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
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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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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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Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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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 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.
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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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We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.
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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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Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
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There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
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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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I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
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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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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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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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I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.
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The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.
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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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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
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Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
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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!