Helen Adams Keller Quotes

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by theaggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

To think clearly without hurry or confusion To love everybody sincerely To act in everything with the highest motives To trust God unhesitatingly.

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

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

When one door to happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one which has been opened to us.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens.

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.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

courageous dignity in the presence of fate.

''Knowledge is power.'' Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.

I have said all along that this clause is probably contrary to the Geneva Conventions. Parliament should now review its decision and re-amend article 9 of the Military Penal Code.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

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.

So long as I confine my activities to social services and the blind, the newspapers compliment me extravagantly, calling me an 'arch-priest of the sightless' and 'wonder woman'. But when I discuss poverty and the industrial system under which we live that is a different matter.

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.

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.