746 Quotes by Helen Keller

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.

I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind."

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.