Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. Helen Keller More Quotes by Helen Keller More Quotes From Helen Keller The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good. Helen Keller fields earth world The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain. Helen Keller sacrifice faces war During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown." Helen Keller flower green-fields sky The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves. Helen Keller organize workers tasks The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers. Helen Keller motivational inspirational life There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness. Helen Keller light eye self The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done. Helen Keller done should-have too-late I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them. Helen Keller punishment overcoming views The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision. Helen Keller born worst vision The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Helen Keller life-lesson acceptance education We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create. Helen Keller events choices soul Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other. Helen Keller neighbor succeed thinking When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened. Helen Keller funny-love doors long Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world. Helen Keller stars beautiful life True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery. Helen Keller reading teaching book There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. Helen Keller diversity kings life I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless. Helen Keller apathy tragedy way Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them. Helen Keller veils gone country In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities. Helen Keller here-i-am sweet book Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away. Helen Keller summer sweet memories
