"What I am looking for is not..." - Quote by Helen Keller
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
More by Helen Keller
“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.”
“You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.”
“I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.”
More on Self Discovery
“You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure.”
“Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.”
“Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.”
More on Inner Peace
“Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.”
“I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.”
“Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.”