“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.”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
Category: strength
Tags: strength, Helen Keller
“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.”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
Category: life
Tags: life, Helen Keller
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
Category: love
Tags: love, Helen Keller
“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.”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
Category: sad
Tags: sad, Helen Keller
“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.”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
Category: time
Tags: time, Helen Keller
“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.”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
Category: men
Tags: men, Helen Keller
“True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
Category: happiness
Tags: happiness, Helen Keller
“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.”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
Category: great
Tags: great, Helen Keller
“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.”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
Category: experience
Tags: experience, Helen Keller
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
Category: peace
Tags: peace, Helen Keller
“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
Category: war
Tags: war, Helen Keller