Helen Keller Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Helen Keller:

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Helen Keller

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Helen Keller

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.

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

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Helen Keller

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.

Helen Keller

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Keller

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Helen Keller

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Keller

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.

Helen Keller

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.

Helen Keller

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

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.

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

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.

Helen Keller

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

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

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Helen Keller

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Helen Keller

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.

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

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.

Helen Keller

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller