Helen Keller Quotes
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The inferiority of women is man-made.
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Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.
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It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.
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Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.
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Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
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A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
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When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.
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Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
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This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
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The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.
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Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
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I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
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Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
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I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
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Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.
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I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.
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We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
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There's only one story, the story of your life.
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There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.