Helen Keller Quotes

Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts, “the source and centre of all minds,

T he test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.

انا اعتقد انه لاشئ هناك اروع من الصور والأفكار التى يستمدها المرء من لغة بدء لتوه فى تعلمها

They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.

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.

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is 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.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

I read them in the intervals between study and play with an ever-deepening sense of pleasure. I did not study nor analyze them — I did not know whether they were well written or not; I never thought about style or authorship. They laid their treasures at my feet, and I accepted them as we accept the sunshine and the love of our friends.

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Under softest touch hides treacherous claws.

All that we love deeply becomes part of us.

never bend your head, always hold it high, look the world straight in the face.