Helen Keller Quotes
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us
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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 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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I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
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The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
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The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
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Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord.
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Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
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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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History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
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We should respect all people.
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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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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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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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World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
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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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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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A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.
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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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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
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I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.
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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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It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.