Helen Keller Quotes
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.
The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.
It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.
Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.