“But the examinations are the chief bugbears of my college life. Although I have faced them many times and cast them down and made them bite the dust, yet they rise again and menace me with pale looks, until like… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the… — 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 spirit of love for our fellow people, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brother- and sisterhood, until the great mass… — Helen Keller Copy Share
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The… — Helen Keller Copy Share
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
