Helen Keller Quotes
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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 true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
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Is love the sweetness of flowers?
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Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
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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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It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
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I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
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I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
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The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
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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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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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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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I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
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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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
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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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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
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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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Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
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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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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.