Helen Keller Quotes - Page 3

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

Literature is my Utopia

Your success and happiness lie in you.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works! Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Faith alone defends. 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.

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

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 the something that I can do.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart

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.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.

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 most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

A beam from the everlasting sun of God.Rude and unresponsive are the stones;Yet in them divine things lie concealed;I hear their imprisoned chant:–“We are fragments of the universe,Chips of the rock whereon God laid the foundation of the world:

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.

Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

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.

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.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

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.