Helen Keller Quotes - Page 17

• We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Real, Destiny

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• I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

  Helen Keller

  Beach, Ocean, Air

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.32, Om Books International

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• I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Rejoice, Disturbing

  "To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller".

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• What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

  Helen Keller

  Joy, Use, Tire

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.175, Book Tree

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• Is love the sweetness of flowers?

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Sweetness

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.82, Modern Library

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• Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

  Helen Keller

  Angel, Smell, Fallen

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• If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

  Helen Keller

  Hands, Purpose, Way

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• My friends have made the story of my life.

  Helen Keller

  Healing, Scrapbooking, Stories

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.85, Om Books International

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• If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

  Helen Keller

  Perfect, Greek, Musical

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.174, 谷月社

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• I have found life so beautiful.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Attitude, Found

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• I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

  Helen Keller

  Book, Eye, Ears

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.57, 谷月社

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• The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.

  Helen Keller

  Lynching, White, America

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.96, American Foundation for the Blind

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• 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 flesh and I myself am not a dream.

  Helen Keller

  Dream, New York, Real

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• I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

  Helen Keller

  Thinking, Enlightenment, Degrees

  Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1904). “The story of my life”

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• I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

  Helen Keller

  Philosophy, Creeds, Objectives

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.27, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Smell is a fallen angel.

  Helen Keller

  Angel, Smell, Fallen Angels

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• Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

  Helen Keller

  War, Roots, Modern

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• Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.

  Helen Keller

  Feels

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• We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

  Helen Keller

  Evil, Way, Knows

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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• We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Acceptance, Thinking

  HELEN KELLER (1960). “MY RELIGION”

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• I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

  Helen Keller

  Dark, Vision, Golden

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• Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

  Helen Keller

  Suffering, Alleviate, Satisfied

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.74, American Foundation for the Blind

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• The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Tolerance, Brotherhood

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Heart, Joy

  Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1905). “The Story of My Life”

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• We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Errors, Rights

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.55, American Foundation for the Blind

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