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Helen Keller Quotes - Page 10

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The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.

Order, Unhappy, May

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.

Writing, Space, Work Out

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.46, Om Books International

Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.

Life, Prayer, Hate

Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.185, Book Tree

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

Inspiring, Graduation, Sight

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Inspirational, Work, Literature

Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.90, Courier Corporation

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Family, Meaningful, Men

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

Life, Adventure, Risk

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

Inspirational, Business, Mistake

Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Friendship, Sweet, Book

"The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, (Ch. 21), 1903.

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.

Country, Gone, Veils

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.

Dollars, Should, Humans

Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.467, Modern Library

Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Light, Sight, Egypt

Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.14, Courier Corporation

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

Children, Simple, Sea

Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.185, Book Tree

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.

Fear, Blessing, Sight

Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.

Relationship, Soulmate, Fall

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Women, Sky, Flying

All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us

Self, Stubborn, Firsts

What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.

Shoes, Half, Glitter

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.8, American Foundation for the Blind

health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

Health, Land, Progress

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

Educational, Names, Smell

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Happiness, Happy, Wise

Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!

Roots, Long, Miracle

This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.

Sweat, Long, Fruit

Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

Vision, Born, Worst

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

Understanding, Depth, Literature

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.63, Om Books International

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