Helen Keller Quotes
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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.
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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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If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
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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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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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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 grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
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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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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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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
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There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
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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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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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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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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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The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
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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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The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
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World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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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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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.