Helen Keller Quotes
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I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.
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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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Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.
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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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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, 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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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 heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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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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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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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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Look the world straight in the eye.
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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 best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
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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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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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World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
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Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
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Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
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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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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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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.