Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller More Quotes by Helen Keller More Quotes From Helen Keller Smells are the fallen angels of the senses. Helen Keller smell fallen angel Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach Helen Keller stomach empty company It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. Helen Keller story-of-my-life kind writing I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective. Helen Keller creeds objectives philosophy 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 errors rights men Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right. Helen Keller taught guarantees children The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be. Helen Keller dollars humans should I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women. Helen Keller enlightenment degrees thinking Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers. Helen Keller agency principles believe 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 The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision. Helen Keller things-in-life sight people We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart. Helen Keller acceptance heart thinking One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier. Helen Keller self-discipline next painful We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil. Helen Keller evil knows way If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought. Helen Keller musical greek perfect I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend. Helen Keller heart doors beautiful I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine. Helen Keller eye taken mean I don't give a damn about semi-radicals! Helen Keller radical damn giving 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 real new-york dream I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times. Helen Keller disturbing rejoice life
