Helen Keller Quotes
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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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No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
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I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.
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The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
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My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.
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All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us
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I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
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The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
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To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
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The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.
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The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
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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 danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.
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I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
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I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
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I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
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I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
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Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.