Helen Keller
That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.Collection: Sunset
Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere ... they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.Collection: Men
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.Collection: Age
There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.Collection: Bible
My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. 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.Collection: Two
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.Collection: Self Esteem
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Collection: About Strength
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.Collection: Graduation
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.Collection: Character
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.Collection: Graduation
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.Collection: Friendship
True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.Collection: Distance
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.Collection: Personal Growth
Literature is my Utopia.Collection: Reading
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.Collection: Country
We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: “Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes.”Collection: Country
There’s only one story, the story of your life.Collection: Stories
Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one’s fellow men.Collection: Real