01c. 1924 ADBelieve. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.Helen Keller / quote ↗
02c. 1924 ADThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heartHelen Keller / quote ↗
03c. 1924 ADthe bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.Helen Keller / quote ↗
04c. 1924 ADThere is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.Helen Keller / quote ↗
05c. 1924 ADCharacter cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Keller / quote ↗
07c. 1924 ADBe of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.Helen Keller / quote ↗
08c. 1924 ADOptimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.Helen Keller / quote ↗
09c. 1924 ADHold out your hands to feel the luxury of sunbeams. Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and finger their graces of form, their delicate mutability of shape, their pliancy and freshness. Expose your face to the aerial floods that sweep the heavens, ‘inhale great draughts of space,’ wonder, wonder at the wind’s unwearied activity. Pile note on note the infinite music that flows increasingly to your soul from the tactual sonorities of a thousand branches and tumbling waters. How can the world be shriveled when this most profound, emotional sense, touch, is faithful to its service? I am sure that if a fairy bade me choose between the sense of sight and that of touch, I would not part with the warm, endearing contact of human hands…Helen Keller / quote ↗
10c. 1924 ADWhen the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life which had perished, steeped in the waters of knowledge grew again, budded again, was sweet again with the blossoms of childhood. Down in the depths of my being, I cried, ‘it is good to be alive!’ I held out two trembling hands to life, and in vain silence would impose dumbness upon me henceforth! The world to which I awoke was still mysterious; but there was hope and love and God in it, and nothing else mattered. Is it not possible that our entrance into heaven may be like this experience of mine?Helen Keller / quote ↗
11c. 1924 ADThe poets have taught us how full of wonders is the night; and the night of blindness has its wonders, too. The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond our senses.Helen Keller / quote ↗
12c. 1924 ADThe only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.Helen Keller / quote ↗
13c. 1924 ADI 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 / quote ↗
14c. 1924 ADA beam from the everlasting sun of God.Rude and unresponsive are the stones;Yet in them divine things lie concealed;I hear their imprisoned chant:–“We are fragments of the universe,Chips of the rock whereon God laid the foundation of the world:Helen Keller / quote ↗
15c. 1924 ADA happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.Helen Keller / quote ↗
16c. 1924 ADThe few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.Helen Keller / quote ↗
17c. 1924 ADI realized that the wonder is not that conditions are so bad, but that humanity has advanced so far in spite of them. & now I am in the fight to change things. I may be a dreamer, but dreamers are necessary to make facts!Helen Keller / quote ↗
18c. 1924 ADNo pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spiritHelen Keller / quote ↗
19c. 1924 ADLife is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Keller / quote ↗
21c. 1924 ADi also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.Helen Keller / quote ↗
22c. 1924 ADOur favourite amusement during that winter was tobogganing. In places the shore of the lake rises abruptly from the water's edge. Down these steep slopes we used to coast. We would get on our toboggan, a boy would give us a shove, and off we went! Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank. What joy! What exhilarating madness! For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine!Helen Keller / quote ↗
23c. 1924 ADI am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists. I have a red flag hanging in my study, and if I could I should gladly march with it past the office of the Times and let all the reporters and photographers make the most of the spectacle.Helen Keller / quote ↗
