Helen Keller Quotes
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Is love the sweetness of flowers?
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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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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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The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
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True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
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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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Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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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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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
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I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
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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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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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The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
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When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within--a spirit of growth and beauty.
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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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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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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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I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
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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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We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.
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The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
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Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.