海伦凯勒格言

猪仔虫

HELEN ADAMS KELLER
　　American author and lecturer
　　(1880 - 1968)
　　
　　
　　Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
　　 - [Cooperation]
　　
　　Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
　　 - [Suffering]
　　
　　College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
　　 - [Colleges]
　　
　　I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
　　 - [War]
　　
　　Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
　　 - [Joy]
　　
　　Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
　　 - [Life]
　　
　　My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
　　 - [Blindness]
　　
　　No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
　　 - [Intolerance]
　　
　　One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
　　 - [Ambition]
　　
　　People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
　　 - [Thought]
　　
　　Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world.
　　 - [Self-pity]
　　
　　The highest result of education is tolerance.
　　 - [Education]
　　
　　The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
　　 - [Charity]
　　
　　There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
　　 - [Ancestry]
　　
　　To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
　　 - [Change]
　　
　　Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
　　 - [Justice]
　　
　　We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
　　 - [Trials]
　　
　　We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
　　 - [Ability]
　　
　　We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
　　 - [Joy]
　　
　　Your success and happiness lie in you. . . . Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
　　 - [Happiness : Success]