This document contains 9 quotes from Helen Keller about topics such as self-pity, friendship, education, change, and fate. Some of the key ideas expressed are that yielding to self-pity prevents doing good, the highest result of education is tolerance, and having the power within ourselves to effect positive change rather than relying on favorable circumstances.
This document contains 9 quotes from Helen Keller about topics such as self-pity, friendship, education, change, and fate. Some of the key ideas expressed are that yielding to self-pity prevents doing good, the highest result of education is tolerance, and having the power within ourselves to effect positive change rather than relying on favorable circumstances.
This document contains 9 quotes from Helen Keller about topics such as self-pity, friendship, education, change, and fate. Some of the key ideas expressed are that yielding to self-pity prevents doing good, the highest result of education is tolerance, and having the power within ourselves to effect positive change rather than relying on favorable circumstances.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never
do anything good in the world. Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived. Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts; but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world. The best and most beautiful thing in life is friendship that springs out of the heart, as fragrances out of the flower. The highest result of education is tolerance. The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances. The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field, I can not reap a kernel of good. There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable