To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image