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Helen Keller Quotations II
By peace | July 19, 2006
Helen Keller : Born in 1880 – Died in 1968
Helen Keller became deaf and blind when she was just a baby of 19 months. As a child she was uncontrollable and her parents enlisted the help of Anne Sullivan, her teacher. Anne Sullivan opened Helen’s world by patiently teaching the young child. Below are words of wisdom in the form of inspirational quotes and motivational quotes by Helen Keller
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 heartthrobs 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.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
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.
Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
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.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
The best way out is always through.
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
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July 7th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Abandoned at 6 Wks Old by My Biological Mother,due to bad cirumstances,I was raised in a “Christian”Family.
From what I saw of thier actions,if these were Christians,then there were only 2 amoung the entire lot! I could learn little about My Native Souixan roots of the Catawban Souix,I began looking for answers from what I have learned from the Christians,compared it to what I could learn about most Native belief Systems I have encountered,looked at Judaism,Spirituality,looking for the path to God!
I clearly dont feel like I learned it in the Southern Babptist Churches I was Forced to go to and pinched or prodded if I didnt behave a certain way! After reading a little,very little to be honest but enough to know that The Muslims know the same People the Bible talked about,as well as did the Jews. I am still in the Dark,Blind! I feel like a blind person who lost thier way,feeling across an Auditorium Floor,searching for it”s Wall,so I can find My way to an Exit!
I admire Ms Keller,for many,many things,but especially for being able to find an unshakable Faith in God,as She knew Him,while She was always in the Dark! I have able-eyes,but They have shown Me only how bad things across the board for all Common Humanity really are! NoOne can agree on Who or What God means.NoOne seems to have all of the answers,but all are ready to claim at an instance that Thier “Religion” is the Only True Way to The Creator,”If You believe in Him”! And they all will fight to the death over thier differences! May Wakan Tanka,Yahweh,Allah,Bless You Forever Ms Keller! You were Blind,but You were not in the Dark,like so Many of Us Today with Abled-Eyes!!!