Helen Keller Quotes
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I never fight, except against difficulties.
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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.
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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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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
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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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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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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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Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.
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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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If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
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Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
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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 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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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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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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The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
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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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I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
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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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I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.
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History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
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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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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.