Helen Keller Quotes
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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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The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
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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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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
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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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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
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Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
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Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.
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Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.
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Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.
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No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
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The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.
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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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Is love the sweetness of flowers?
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Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.
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The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
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The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
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I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
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Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.