The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way Helen Keller More Quotes by Helen Keller More Quotes From Helen Keller All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. Helen Keller motivational positive inspirational It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. Helen Keller hard-work heart doors Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. Helen Keller optimism evil cheating We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial. Helen Keller each-day choices thinking Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. Helen Keller deafness loss people 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 of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. Helen Keller real brother responsibility Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life. Helen Keller education happy life I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man. Helen Keller loss men mean Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world. Helen Keller heart people world It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns. Helen Keller healthy believe blood Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. Helen Keller moving-on inspirational life When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding. Helen Keller family grief sympathy I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound. Helen Keller blessing sight fear Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows. Helen Keller speech chance children I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world. Helen Keller learning light order Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision. Helen Keller vision able would-be Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Helen Keller future love life Friends create the world anew each day. Helen Keller care each-day world The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision. Helen Keller vision tragedy sight Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. Helen Keller valentines-day beauty love
