The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller (1880–1968) lost her hearing and sight at nineteen months. With her teacher Anne Sullivan she learned to read and write, and became the first deafblind person to earn a university degree. She wrote and lectured all her life, campaigning for disability rights and for women's suffrage.
About this theme: Love
The Greeks had several words for what we cover with one: eros for desire, philia for the affection between friends, storge for family attachment, agape for the kind that asks nothing back. Translate all of that into a single word and the distinctions vanish — yet the distinctions are what most quotes about love are actually about.
More by Helen Keller
- Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
- Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
- Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
More on Love
- No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.— Charles Dickens
- A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.— Elbert Hubbard
- One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.— Sophocles
- Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.— Mother Teresa
- There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.— Jane Austen