Helen Keller

“רחמים על עצמנו הם אויבנו הגדול, ואם אנו נכנעים לו, לעולם לא נוכל לעשות את הטוב.”

“אנשים אינם אוהבים לחשוב, כי אנו חייבים להגיע למסקנות שאינן תמיד נעימות.”

“אף שהעולם מלא בסבל, הוא מלא גם בהתגברות על הסבל.”

“ההישג הגדול ביותר של החינוך הוא הסובלנות.”

“שלח עיניך אל אור השמש ולא תראה את הצללים.”

“אני רוצה בהבנה הגורמת לשלווה.”

“What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness.”

“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.”

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”

“Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“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.”

“More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”

“Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of sunbeams. Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and finger their graces of form, their delicate mutability of shape, their pliancy and freshness. Expose your face to the aerial floods that sweep the heavens, ‘inhale great draughts of space,’ wonder, wonder at the wind’s unwearied activity. Pile note on note the infinite music that flows increasingly to your soul from the tactual sonorities of a thousand branches and tumbling waters. How can the world be shriveled when this most profound, emotional sense, touch, is faithful to its service? I am sure that if a fairy bade me choose between the sense of sight and that of touch, I would not part with the warm, endearing contact of human hands…”

“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”

“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

“the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.”