What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing? Helen Keller More Quotes by Helen Keller More Quotes From Helen Keller The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. Helen Keller valleyshalfdark What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision. Helen Keller bornvisionsight I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy. Helen Keller true-joytoolsmade One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in. Helen Keller childhoodcuriosityyears The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists. Helen Keller profitarmywant We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good. Helen Keller crushforcetrials Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world. Helen Keller doebeautifulworld Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom. Helen Keller senseskingdomssuccess The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Helen Keller joyhandspeople The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens. Helen Keller degreessufferingcivilization He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower. Helen Keller widowersspiritage It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me. Helen Keller pleasureheartsometimes What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness! Helen Keller gratitudenatureappreciation If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields. Helen Keller moonskybelieve I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness. Helen Keller silencelightdarkness It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause. Helen Keller difficultycomplexitycauses Fear: the best way out is through. Helen Keller best-wayway Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind. Helen Keller tomorroweyeuse To get Congress to do anything. Helen Keller congress I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness. Helen Keller naturedesireway
