Our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
HELEN KELLERKnowledge is love and light and vision.
More Helen Keller Quotes
-
-
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
HELEN KELLER -
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
HELEN KELLER -
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
HELEN KELLER -
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
HELEN KELLER -
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
HELEN KELLER -
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.
HELEN KELLER -
Relationships are like Rome – difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall.
HELEN KELLER -
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
HELEN KELLER -
What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
HELEN KELLER -
So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
HELEN KELLER -
Knowledge is power.
HELEN KELLER -
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
HELEN KELLER -
True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
HELEN KELLER -
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
HELEN KELLER -
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
HELEN KELLER -
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
HELEN KELLER -
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
HELEN KELLER -
The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
HELEN KELLER -
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.
HELEN KELLER -
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.
HELEN KELLER -
There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
HELEN KELLER -
Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
HELEN KELLER -
The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
HELEN KELLER -
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
HELEN KELLER -
So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
HELEN KELLER -
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
HELEN KELLER