Helen Keller Quotes
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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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The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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There's only one story, the story of your life.
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Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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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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He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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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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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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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 thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
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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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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.
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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 only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
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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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Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
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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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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
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Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.