Helen Keller Quotes
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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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I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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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 welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
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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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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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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
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It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
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Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
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I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
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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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I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
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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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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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He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
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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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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 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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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
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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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In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.
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Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.
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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.