Helen Keller Quotes
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I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
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Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
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Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.
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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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We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.
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God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.
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The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
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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 hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
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Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
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I will eat grandfather for dinner.
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One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.
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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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I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.
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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
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The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
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Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.
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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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Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.
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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.