Helen Keller Quotes
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I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.
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The simplest way to be happy is to do good.
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He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
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Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.
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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
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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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Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord.
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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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We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.
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I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!
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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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What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.
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A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.
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History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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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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The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
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Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
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More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
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There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
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Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.