Helen Keller quotes - page 5

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. (Helen Keller)
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Helen Keller
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Helen Keller
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen Keller
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
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
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller
Literature is my Utopia.
Helen Keller
True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.
Helen Keller
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.
Helen Keller
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering. (Helen Keller)
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller
Your success and happiness lie in you.
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
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller
Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
Helen Keller
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
Helen Keller
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
Helen Keller
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen Keller
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. (Helen Keller)
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen Keller
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
Helen Keller
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen Keller