Helen Keller Quotes
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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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Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.
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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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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 will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
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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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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 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 believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
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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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The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
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For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.
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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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We should respect all people.
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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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I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.
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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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To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
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Fear: the best way out is through.
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The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
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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 have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.
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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.