Quote: One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. [Helen Keller]
Quote: Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. [Helen Keller]
Quote: I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating. [Helen Keller]
Quote: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. [Helen Keller]
Quote: Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. [Helen Keller]
Quote: Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. [Helen Keller]
Quote: 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. [Helen Keller]
Quote: Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others [Helen Keller]
Quote: There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. [Helen Keller]
Quote: I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. [Helen Keller]
Quote: Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed. [Helen Keller]
Quote: Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. [Helen Keller]
Quote: Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. [Helen Keller]
Quote: The highest result of education is tolerance. [Helen Keller]
Quote: No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. [Helen Keller]
Quote: The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. [Helen Keller]
Quote: We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. [Helen Keller]
Quote: Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. [Helen Keller]
Quote: God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work. [Helen Keller]
Quote: Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. [Helen Keller]
Quote: The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all. [Helen Keller]
Quote: Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. [Helen Keller]
Quote: 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. [Helen Keller]
Quote: Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom. [Helen Keller]
Quote: Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. [Helen Keller]