746 Quotes by Helen Keller

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

There's only one story, the story of your life.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.