Helen Keller Quotes
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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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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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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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Fear: the best way out is through.
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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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There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
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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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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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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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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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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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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.
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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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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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The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
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Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
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World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
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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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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, 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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I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
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The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
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We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.