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Helen Keller Quotes - Page 13

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Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the

Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.

Happiness, Kindness, Sadness

Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

Mean, Men, Thorough Knowledge

Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.149, Modern Library

I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.

Beautiful, Angel, Opportunity

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.142, Om Books International

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.

Christian, Naughty, Two

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.4, American Foundation for the Blind

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

Fighting, People, Want

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.73, American Foundation for the Blind

I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.

Country, War, School

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.42, American Foundation for the Blind

The inferiority of women is man-made.

Men, Inferiority, Made

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

Peace, War, Hero

Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Nature, Food, Years

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

Trying, World, Want

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.73, American Foundation for the Blind

It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.

Art, Spring, Pride

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

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.

Years, Soul, Feelings

Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.142, NYU Press

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.

Teacher, Years, Two

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.17, Om Books International

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Acceptance, Men, Thinking

Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Women, Memorable, Democracy

Helen Keller (2013). “Optimism: An Essay”, p.19, The Floating Press

If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows.

Sunshine, Shadow, Looks

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. 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. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

Sweet, Book, Here I Am

Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.74, Courier Corporation

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.

Running, Fall, Struggle

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.62, Om Books International

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

Summer, Sweet, Memories

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Friendship, Inspiring, Memories

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.33, American Foundation for the Blind

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

Book, Fall, Hands

Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.1, NYU Press

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

Hearing, All Alone, Feels

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

Real, Blow, Men

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.148, Matthew Gordon

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.

Gratitude, Sorrow, Tasks

Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.169, Book Tree

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

Education, Life Lesson, Acceptance

Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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