Helen Keller Quotes
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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
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Is love the sweetness of flowers?
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While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.
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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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Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.
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A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.
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I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
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The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
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The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
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The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
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Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
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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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Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.
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Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.
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Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.
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The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
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The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.
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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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I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
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If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.