746 Quotes by Helen Keller

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

I can feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.

While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.

I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about... I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.

When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within--a spirit of growth and beauty.

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.