Helen Keller Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon
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  The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

• Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

  Helen Keller

  Real, Blow, Men

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.148, Matthew Gordon

• Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

  Helen Keller

  Morning, Fire, Joy

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

• Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Prayer, Hate

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.185, Book Tree

• Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Mean, Self

• Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents
  of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service.
  Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
  Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form
  an invincible host against difficulty.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Success, Lying

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

• The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Agony, Our World

  "Let Us Have Faith".

• If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

  Helen Keller

  Hands, Purpose, Way

• For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Children, Men

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

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