Helen Keller Quotes
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I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.
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People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
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Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.
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The inferiority of women is man-made.
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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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What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?
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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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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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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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I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
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Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.
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The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.
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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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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 look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
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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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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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Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
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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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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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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.