Helen Keller Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand; but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Heart, Sunshine

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

• Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

  Helen Keller

  Beauty, Art, Inspiration

• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Doors

• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Sometimes, Pleasure

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

• What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

  Helen Keller

  Men, Twenties, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.69, American Foundation for the Blind

• I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

  Helen Keller

  Book, Eye, Ears

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.57, 谷月社

• Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

  Helen Keller

  Song, Flower, Eye

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.11, American Foundation for the Blind

• Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

  Helen Keller

  World, Glory, Pleasure

  "Three Days to See". Atlantic Monthly, January, 1933.

• Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Pain, Pleasure

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