Quotes & Sayings About Change Helen Keller

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances. — Helen Keller

A bend in the road is not the end of the road ... Unless you fail to make the turn. — Helen Keller

Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us. — Helen Keller

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable. — Helen Keller

My teacher read me "The Chambered Nautilus," and showed me that the shell-building process of the mollusks is symbolical of the development of the mind. Just as the wonder-working mantle of the Nautilus changes the material it absorbs from the water and makes it a part of itself, so the bits of knowledge one gathers undergo a similar change and become pearls of thought. — Helen Keller

I realized that the wonder is not that conditions are so bad, but that humanity has advanced so far in spite of them. & now I am in the fight to change things. I may be a dreamer, but dreamers are necessary to make facts! — Helen Keller

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart. — Helen Keller