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Letter "H" » Helen Keller Quotes
«As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
clears, cloud, complaint, pervert, perverting, perverts, selfishness, sharpened, sharpening, sharpens, The Vision, vision
«Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same»
«A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
disappointment, distasteful, flush, flushed, flushes, resolves, routine, sinking, sinking feeling, tasks, textbook, textbooks
«There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
compelled, compensated, compensates, details, forced, gained, rebels, sources, The Knowledge, unpleasant
«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.»
«If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Music,
Thought
| Keywords:
Greek, Human thought, instruments, musical, musical instrument, musical instruments, The Violin, violin, violins
«The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.»
«I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, beauties, curves, goddesses, gods and goddesses, Greeks, lines, rhythmical, sculpture, sensitive, subtly, throbbing, throbs
«The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Bankers and banks,
Country
| Keywords:
Bankers, Corporations, governed, richest, speculator, speculators
«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.»
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