Helen Keller Quotes
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The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
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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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If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
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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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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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Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
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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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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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Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.
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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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Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.
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I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
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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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Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
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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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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
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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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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
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So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!
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People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.
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The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
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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.