Top 461 Quotes & Sayings by Helen Keller - Page 2

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

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

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

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

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.

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

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.

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 will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

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.

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.

For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.

Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.

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.

When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulty.

The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within--a spirit of growth and beauty.

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.