Helen Keller
writer, orator, essayist, political activist, trade unionist, peace activist, suffragette, linguist, autobiographer
Read on Wikipedia1880 – 1968
All Quotes by Helen Keller
“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”
“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
“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.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”
“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”
“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
“It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”
“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”
“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
“True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”
“Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.”
“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”
“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”
“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”
“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
“True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.”
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
“We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.”
“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.”
“The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. We sightless children had the best of eyes that day in our hearts and in our finger-tips. We were glad from the child's necessity of being happy. The blind who have outgrown the child's perpetual joy can be children again on Christmas Day and celebrate in the midst of them who pipe and dance and sing a new song!”
“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”
“The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.”
“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
“We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.”
“It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.”
“The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus — the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.”
“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”
“Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?”
“I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.”
“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.”
“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!”
“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.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
“Some people do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions; and conclusions are not always pleasant. They are a thorn in the spirit. But I consider it a priceless gift and a deep responsibility to think.”
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
“The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.”
“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.”
“Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.”
“The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
“The Bible gives me a deep, comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal."”
“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”
“I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.”
“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”
“I read "King Lear" soon after "Macbeth," and I shall never forget the feeling of horror when I came to the scene in which Gloster's eyes are put out. Anger seized me, my fingers refused to move, I sat rigid for one long moment, the blood throbbing in my temples, and all the hatred that a child can feel concentrated in my heart.”
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”
“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities."”
“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
“If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.”
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
“Toleration … is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
“It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.”
“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”
“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”
“I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”
“It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
“It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.”
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“[...] although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to coöperate with the good, that it may prevail. I try to increase the power God has given me to see the best in everything and every one, and make that Best a part of my life.”
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
“I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
“To what is good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and wilful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness.”
“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.”
“I, too, can work, and because I love to labor with my head and my hands, I am an optimist in spite of all. I used to think I should be thwarted in my desire to do something useful. But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“I trust, and nothing that happens disturbs my trust.”
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
“Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.”
“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
“But in a little measure my small voice of individual experience does join in the declaration of philosophy that the good is the only world, and that world is a world of spirit. It is also a universe where order is All, where an unbroken logic holds the parts together, where disorder defines itself as non-existence, where evil, as St. Augustine held, is delusion, and therefore is not.”
“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
“To know the history of philosophy is to know that the highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists. The growth of philosophy is the story of man's spiritual life.”
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
“The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, — the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.”
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
“I see the clouds part slowly, and I hear a cry of protest against the bigot. The restraining hand of tolerance is laid upon the inquisitor, and the humanist utters a message of peace to the persecuted. Instead of the cry, "Burn the heretic!" men study the human soul with sympathy, and there enters into their hearts a new reverence for that which is unseen.”
“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”
“The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.”
“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”
“Who shall dare let his incapacity for hope or goodness cast a shadow upon the courage of those who bear their burdens as if they were privileges?”
“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
“We have found that our great philosophers and our great men of action are optimists. So, too, our most potent men of letters have been optimists in their books and in their lives. No pessimist ever won an audience commensurately wide with his genius, and many optimistic writers have been read and admired out of all measure to their talents, simply because they wrote of the sunlit side of life.”
“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”
“Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the world at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.”
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”
“Capitalism will inevitably find itself face to face with a starving multitude of unemployed workers demanding food or destruction of the social order that has starved them and robbed them of their jobs.”
“Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.”
“Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.”
“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
“It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.”
“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”
“If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness....”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
“True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.”
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
“We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.”
“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.”
“Blindness separates people from things;”
“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”
“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
“It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.”
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”
“I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.”
“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!”
“It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.”
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.”
“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
“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.”
“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”
“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”
“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
“For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”
“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”