Can you guess which one of these belongs to Helen Keller?
→ Don’t keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
→ God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
→ The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
→ Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
→ Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
→ Assassins!
→ Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
→ There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
→ Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
→ Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.
→ The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
→ Attachment to spiritual things is just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
→ I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.
→ It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
→ If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
→ It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
→ I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
→ 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.
→ There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
→ The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
→ 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 secret to success is constancy of purpose.
→ A little integrity is better than any career.
→ If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
Try to identify the quote attributed to Helen Keller.
→ One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
→ Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
→ Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
→ We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Looks like Helen Keller is the author of one of these.
→ Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
→ Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
→ Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch.
→ Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.