Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Weitere Zitate von Helen Keller
Zum Autor"[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."
"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."
"It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…."
"I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same."
"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."