Helen Keller Quotes
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It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.
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The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?
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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
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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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How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.
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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
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I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.
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The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
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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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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
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I will eat grandfather for dinner.
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The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.
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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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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
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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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Look the world straight in the eye.
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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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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Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.
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The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.