Helen Adams Keller Quotes (17 Quotes)

Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt.. that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.

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 mans progress is to feel the great heart-throbs 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.

The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no obstacles to overcome.

I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcomings of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

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 as been opened for us.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real and I myself am not a dream.

I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.

Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it ... holy if only ... we offer the only sacrifices ever commandedthe love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.

Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.

We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say 'Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there I am at Home where everyone comes.'

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important.... The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it.

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness.

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

My darkness had been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.