Helen Keller Quotes
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The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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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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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.
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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 do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
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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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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
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The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.
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The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
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Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
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The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.
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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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Smell is a fallen angel.
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Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
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Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.
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For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.
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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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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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Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.
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Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
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During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."