Helen Keller Quotes

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends.

فمحاولة الكتابة تشبة الى حد كبير محاولة تركيب أجزاء الصورة المكونة للغز

It is an unspeakable boon to me to be able to speak in winged words that need no interpretation.

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.

First they ask me to tell the life of the child who is mother to the woman. Then they make me my own daughter and ask for an account of grown-up sensations. Finally I am requested to write about my dreams, and thus I become an anachronical grandmother; for it is the special privilege of old age to relate dreams.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. It is my service to think how I can best fulfil the demands that each day makes upon me, and to rejoice that others can do what I cannot. Green, the historian,[Life and Letters of John Richard Green. Edited by Leslie Stephen.] tells us that the world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker; and that thought alone suffices to guide me in this dark world and wide." p. 21

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Some of the most significant discoveries in modern science owe their origin to the imagination of men who had neither accurate knowledge nor exact instruments to demonstrate their beliefs.

انها تجربة رائعة أن نتلقى بأناس بهذا القدر من الطيبة والدفء المشاعر الى الحد الذى يجعلنا نشعر بالسكينة والسعادة حين نكون بصحبتهم

I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.

Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

Thus it is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

Life is either a daring challenge or nothing