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.

Quote by Helen Keller

Topics: Life Quotes

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

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

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

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may...

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may...

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

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

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

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

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators,...

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators,...

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

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering...

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering...

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at...

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at...

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the...

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the...

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy...

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy...

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well...

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well...

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier...

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier...

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

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

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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful,...

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful,...

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a...

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a...