Selected Helen Keller Quotations Pages 1 | 2 | 3
• We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joys in the world.
• 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.
• I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
• It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.
• What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
• 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.
• 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.
• Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
• As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
• Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
• My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
• The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
• The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
• Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
• There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.
• 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.
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