Helen Keller Quotes
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It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
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The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.
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Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.
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Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.
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Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.
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I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!
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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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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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There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.
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When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
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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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Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
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Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love.
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History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
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Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.
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When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
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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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Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
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Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
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If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
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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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To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.
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Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
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There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.