746 Quotes by Helen Keller

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.