Helen Keller Quotes
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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
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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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The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
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I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
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There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
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I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!
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The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
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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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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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I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.
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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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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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The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
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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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I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
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There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
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Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
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Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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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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I never fight, except against difficulties.
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The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.