Quotes

“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.” Helen Keller

“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.” Helen Keller

“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.” Helen Keller

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” Helen Keller

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” Helen Keller

“We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.” Helen Keller

“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.” Helen Keller

“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.” Helen Keller

“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.” Helen Keller

“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.” Helen Keller

“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.” Helen Keller

“Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.” Helen Keller

“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!” Helen Keller

“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.” Helen Keller

“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.” Helen Keller

“It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.” Helen Keller

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” Maya Angelou

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Maya Angelou

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” Maya Angelou

“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” Maya Angelou

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” Maya Angelou

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” Maya Angelou

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” Maya Angelou

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” Maya Angelou

“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.” Maya Angelou

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.” Maya Angelou

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” Maya Angelou

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Maya Angelou

“Nothing will work unless you do.” Maya Angelou