Helen Keller Quotes
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We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!
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This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.
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I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
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There's only one story, the story of your life.
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Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.
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What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
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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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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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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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Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.
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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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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
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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 hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
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I will eat grandfather for dinner.
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The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.
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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.
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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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How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.
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Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.