Helen Keller Quotes.
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.
No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
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.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.
I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
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.
