[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.
Weitere Zitate von Helen Keller
Zum Autor"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."
"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…."
"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."
"Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream."
"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.'."
"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."