Helen Keller Quotes
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
College isn`t the place to go for ideas.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
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.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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.
It`s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
