746 Quotes by Helen Keller

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

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."

I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.

Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.

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.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.