Helen Keller

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

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

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

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

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller

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

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller

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.
Helen Keller

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

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

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

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
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 hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen Keller

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

View the original article here

Helen Keller

Showing quotations 1 to 23 of 23 total Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. 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 College isn't the place to go for ideas. Helen Keller Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content Helen KellerI do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. Helen KellerLife 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. Helen Keller 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. Helen KellerMany 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 Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen KellerNever bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. Helen KellerNo pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Helen Keller One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen KellerPeople do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. Helen KellerSelf-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. Helen KellerSmell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived. Helen KellerThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. Helen KellerThere is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. Helen KellerWe could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller 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. Helen KellerWhen we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. Helen KellerThe highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903 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. Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)

- 41 Quotations in other collections
- Search for Helen Keller at Amazon.com

Showing quotations 1 to 23 of 23 total Browse our complete list of 3150 authors by last name:

View the original article here

Helen Hunt Jackson

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
Helen Hunt Jackson

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?
Helen Hunt Jackson

But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.
Helen Hunt Jackson

But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
Helen Hunt Jackson

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.
Helen Hunt Jackson

Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
Helen Hunt Jackson

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.
Helen Hunt Jackson

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.
Helen Hunt Jackson

Love has a tide!
Helen Hunt Jackson

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Helen Hunt Jackson

O month when they who love must love and wed.
Helen Hunt Jackson

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
Helen Hunt Jackson

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.
Helen Hunt Jackson

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
Helen Hunt Jackson

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.
Helen Hunt Jackson

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Helen Hunt Jackson

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
Helen Hunt Jackson

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.
Helen Hunt Jackson

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
Helen Hunt Jackson

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
Helen Hunt Jackson

View the original article here

Helen Rowland

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
Helen Rowland

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland

A fool and her money are soon courted.
Helen Rowland

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
Helen Rowland

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
Helen Rowland

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
Helen Rowland

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Helen Rowland

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Helen Rowland

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
Helen Rowland

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
Helen Rowland

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Helen Rowland

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
Helen Rowland

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
Helen Rowland

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
Helen Rowland

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
Helen Rowland

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
Helen Rowland

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.
Helen Rowland

View the original article here

Helen Rowland

Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total One man's folly is another man's wife. Helen Rowland The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. Helen Rowland, A Guide to Men, 1922

- 13 Quotations in other collections
- Search for Helen Rowland at Amazon.com

Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total Browse our complete list of 3150 authors by last name:

View the original article here

Helen Hayes

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
Helen Hayes

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
Helen Hayes

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Helen Hayes

Childhood is a short season.
Helen Hayes

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen Hayes

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
Helen Hayes

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes

I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Helen Hayes

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.
Helen Hayes

If you rest, you rust.
Helen Hayes

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Helen Hayes

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Helen Hayes

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
Helen Hayes

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
Helen Hayes

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Helen Hayes

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
Helen Hayes

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
Helen Hayes

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Helen Hayes

The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes

View the original article here

Helen Keller

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

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

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

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

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller

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

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller

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.
Helen Keller

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

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

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

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
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 hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen Keller

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

View the original article here