Helen Keller Quotes
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There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
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For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.
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How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.
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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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I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
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Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.
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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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Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
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The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
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Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
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One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.
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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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Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
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Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.
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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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I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.
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The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way
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A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.
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Fear: the best way out is through.
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Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.