Helen Keller Quotes
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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
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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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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.
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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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There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.
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Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
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Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
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A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.
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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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The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
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When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
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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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I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.
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We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.
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When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.
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I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
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Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
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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 hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
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He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.