To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Weitere Zitate von Helen Keller
Zum Autor"Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."
"Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: 'Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land.'."
"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."
"A beam from the everlasting sun of God.Rude and unresponsive are the stones;Yet in them divine things lie concealed;I hear their imprisoned chant:–“We are fragments of the universe,Chips of the rock whereon God laid the foundation of the world:."
"When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
"[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."