88 Helen Keller Quotes

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

"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."

"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"

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

"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."

"God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His work."

"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."

"Just as all things upon earth represent and image forth all the realities of another world, so the Bible is one mighty representative of the whole spiritual life of humanity."

"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."

"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."

"I never fight, except against difficulties."

"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."

"I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower."