Quotes from Helen Keller
Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.
- Helen Keller
It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood.
- Helen Keller
Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.
- Helen Keller
The bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.
- Helen Keller
Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
- Helen Keller
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad.
- Helen Keller
Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
- Helen Keller
I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long.
- Helen Keller
When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy.
- Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable." HELEN KELLER
- Helen Keller
What is more exhilarating than to make your staunch little boat, obedient to your will and muscle, go skimming lightly over glistening, tilting waves, and to feel the steady, imperious surge of the water!
- Helen Keller