Helen Keller
God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.Collection: God
I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.Collection: Past
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."Collection: Flower
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.Collection: Nature
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?Collection: Real
Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.Collection: Ignorance
People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.Collection: Believe
The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.Collection: Sight
When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.Collection: Brain
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.Collection: Army
He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Hands
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.Collection: Heart
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.Collection: Kindness
What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?Collection: Men
Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.Collection: Good Friend
I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!Collection: Giving
We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.Collection: Inspirational
We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.Collection: Country
I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.Collection: Beach
Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.Collection: Heart
I never fight, except against difficulties.Collection: Fighting
Is love the sweetness of flowers?Collection: Flower
It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.Collection: Sight
What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?Collection: Joy
The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.Collection: Heart
The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.Collection: Light
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: Real
The way forward is simple - just follow Christ!Collection: Simple
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.Collection: Life
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.Collection: Spring
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.Collection: Spring
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.Collection: People
I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.Collection: War
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.Collection: Strength
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.Collection: Dark
Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.Collection: Beautiful
I will eat grandfather for dinner.Collection: Grandfather
Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Choices
World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.Collection: Peace
Your success and happiness lie in you.Collection: Inspirational
What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?Collection: Children
We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Life
Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.Collection: Spirit
I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.Collection: Inspirational
Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadowsCollection: Heart