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Helen Keller Quotes - Page 15

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The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

Life, Beautiful, Stars

Helen Keller, SBP Editors (2017). “The Story of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.93, Samaira Book Publishers

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

Flower, Miracle, Texture

"Three Days to See". Atlantic Monthly, January, 1933.

To get Congress to do anything.

Congress

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.69, Matthew Gordon

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

Christmas, Optimism, Festivals

Helen Keller (2013). “Optimism: An Essay”, p.29, The Floating Press

We should respect all people.

People, Should

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

Inspirational, Heart, Knowledge

Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.15, Courier Corporation

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

Age, Tribes, Maldives

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.134, Matthew Gordon

Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

Empty, Stomach, Company

Be heroes in an army of construction.

Hero, Army, Construction

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.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

War, Looks, Feuds

Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

Spiritual, Giving, Joy

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Country, Land, Bankers

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

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

Eye, Night, Light

I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Beautiful, Heart, Doors

Helen Keller (1903). “Optimism, My Key of Life”

I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.

Philosophical, Eye, Smell

Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.34, Courier Corporation

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

Failing, Globalization, Chiefs

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.

Business, Self, Oligarchy

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

Struggle, Fall, Victory

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

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.

Past, Atheism, Wish

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

Heart, Soul, Mind

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

Wise, Disappointment, Brave

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.107, American Foundation for the Blind

Your success & happiness lies in you.

Lying, Success Happiness

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

Real, Mean, Men

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.68, Matthew Gordon

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

Positive, Doors

"We Bereaved". Book by Helen Keller, 1929.

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