헬렌 켈러의 명언 모음 50 (Helen Keller Quotes 위인의 격언, 잠언, 교훈)

 

 

헬런 애덤스 켈러(영어: Helen Adams Keller, 1880년 6월 27일 ~ 1968년 6월 1일)는 미국의 작가, 교육자이자 사회주의 운동가이다. 그녀는 인문계 학사를 받은 최초의 시각, 청각 시청각장애인이다. 헬렌 켈러의 장애로 인해 가지고 있던 언어적 문제를 앤 설리번 선생과 자신의 노력으로 장애를 가진 문제점을 건강하게 되돌린 유년시절을 다룬 영화 《미라클 워커》로 인해 그녀의 이야기는 전 세계적으로 널리 알려지게 되었다. (출처: 위키백과)

 

 

 

헬렌 켈러의 명언 50

 

 

1. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

세상에서 가장 훌륭하고 아름다운 것들은 눈에 보이거나 만질 수 없다. 단지 가슴으로만 느낄 수 있다.

 

2. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

혼자서 할 수 있는 일은 작습니다. 함께 할 때 우리는 큰 일을 할 수 있습니다.

 

3. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

얼굴을 햇빛에 비추면 그림자가 보이지 않습니다.

 

4. Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

머리를 숙이지 마세요. 항상 높이 들어 올리세요. 세상을 똑바로 바라보세요.

 

5. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

시력을 잃는 것보다 더 나쁜 것은 시력은 있으나 비전이 없는 것입니다.

 

6. What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

우리가 한때 즐겼던 것은 결코 잃을 수 없습니다. 우리가 깊이 사랑하는 모든 것은 우리의 일부가 됩니다.

 

7. True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

진정한 행복은... 자기만족을 통해서 얻는 것이 아니라, 가치 있는 목적에 대한 충실함을 통해서 얻는다.

 

8. We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

세상에 기쁨만 있다면 우리는 결코 용기와 인내심을 갖는 법을 배울 수 없을 것입니다.

 

9. Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

자기 연민은 우리의 최악의 적이며, 우리가 자기 연민에 굴복한다면 이 세상에서 현명한 일을 결코 할 수 없습니다.

 

10. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

보안은 대부분 미신입니다. 자연에는 존재하지 않으며, 인간의 자녀들은 전체적으로 보안을 경험하지 않습니다. 위험을 피하는 것은 장기적으로 노골적으로 노출되는 것보다 더 안전하지 않습니다. 인생은 대담한 모험이거나 아무것도 아닙니다.

 

11. Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

사랑은 만질 수 없는 아름다운 꽃과 같지만, 그 향기로 인해 정원은 기쁨의 장소가 됩니다.

 

12. One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

날아오르고 싶은 충동을 느낄 때는 결코 기어가는 데 동의할 수 없습니다.

 

13. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

어떤 비관주의자도 별의 비밀을 발견하지 못했고, 미지의 땅으로 항해하지 못했고, 인간 정신을 위한 새로운 문을 열지 못했습니다.

 

14. I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

나는 이해를 넘어서는 평화를 원하지 않습니다. 평화를 가져다주는 이해를 원합니다.

 

15. The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

세상에서 가장 불쌍한 사람은 시력은 있으나 비전이 없는 사람이다.

 

16. Knowledge is love and light and vision.

지식은 사랑이요 빛이며 비전입니다.

 

17. I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

나는 위대하고 고귀한 일을 성취하고 싶어하지만, 작은 일이라도 위대하고 고귀한 일인 것처럼 성취하는 것이 나의 가장 큰 의무입니다.

 

18. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

나에게는 가장 호화로운 페르시아 양탄자보다 소나무 바늘로 만든 무성한 카펫이나 해면 같은 잔디가 더 환영받는다.

 

19. Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

인생은 흥미로운 사업이며, 다른 사람을 위해 살 때 가장 흥미로운 일이 됩니다.

 

20. It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

선한 사람들이 악마와 싸우는 데 얼마나 많은 시간을 보내는지 놀랍습니다. 그들이 동료 인간을 사랑하는 데 같은 양의 에너지를 쏟았다면, 악마는 권태로움에 빠져 스스로 죽을 것입니다.

 

21. No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

행복을 생산하지 않고 소비할 권리는 누구에게도 없습니다.

 

22. We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

우리는 대부분의 악에 대한 치료법을 발견했을지 모르지만, 인간의 무관심이라는 최악의 악에 대한 치료법은 아직 발견하지 못했습니다.

 

23. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

행복의 한쪽 문이 닫히면 다른 문이 열린다. 하지만 흔히 우리는 닫힌 문을 너무 오랫동안 바라보다가 우리를 위해 열린 문을 보지 못한다.

 

24. Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

문학은 나의 유토피아입니다. 여기서 나는 권리를 박탈당하지 않습니다. 감각의 장벽이 나를 책 친구들의 달콤하고 은혜로운 담론에서 차단하지 못합니다. 그들은 부끄러움이나 어색함 없이 나에게 말을 걸어줍니다.

 

25. It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

모든 것을 가진 사람이 아무것도 없는 사람에게 관심을 갖도록 하는 것은 어렵습니다.

 

26. While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

그들이 서로 불가능하다고 말하였더니, 이루어졌느니라.

 

27. It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

보는 것만으로도 끔찍한 일인데, 비전이 없는 것은 정말 끔찍한 일입니다.

 

28. College isn't the place to go for ideas.

대학은 아이디어를 얻기 위한 곳이 아니다.

 

29. 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.

많은 사람들이 진정한 행복이 무엇인지에 대해 잘못된 생각을 가지고 있습니다. 그것은 자기 만족을 통해 얻는 것이 아니라 가치 있는 목적에 충실함으로써 얻는 것입니다.

 

30. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

낙관주의는 성취로 이끄는 믿음입니다. 희망과 자신감 없이는 아무것도 할 수 없습니다.

 

31. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

어둠 속에서 친구와 함께 걷는 것이 밝은 곳에서 혼자 걷는 것보다 낫습니다.

 

32. Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

당신의 성공과 행복은 당신에게 있습니다. 행복을 유지하고, 기쁨을 유지하도록 결심하십시오. 그러면 어려움에 맞서 무적의 군대를 형성할 것입니다.

 

33. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

성격은 편안함과 고요함 속에서 개발될 수 없습니다. 시련과 고통을 경험해야만 영혼이 강해지고, 야망이 고취되고, 성공이 이루어질 수 있습니다.

 

34. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

모든 것에는 경이로움이 있고, 어둠과 고요함조차도 있습니다. 그리고 나는 어떤 상태에 있든 그 안에서 만족하는 법을 배웁니다.

 

35. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

사랑하는 몇몇 친구들의 기억이 내 마음속에 살아 있는 한, 인생은 좋다고 말할 수 있을 것이다.

 

36. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

세상은 고통으로 가득 차 있지만, 동시에 고통을 극복하는 것으로도 가득 차 있습니다.

 

37. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

위험을 피하는 것은 장기적으로는 노골적으로 노출되는 것보다 더 안전하지 않습니다. 두려워하는 사람은 대담한 사람만큼 자주 잡힙니다.

 

38. We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

우리가 충분히 오랫동안 고수한다면, 우리는 원하는 것은 무엇이든 할 수 있습니다.

 

39. Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

죽음은 한 방에서 다른 방으로 넘어가는 것에 불과합니다. 하지만 저에게는 차이가 있습니다. 왜냐하면 다른 방에서는 볼 수 있기 때문입니다.

 

40. What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

내가 찾는 것은 밖에 있는 것이 아니라 내 안에 있다.

 

41. Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

대중이 서로의 복지에 대한 책임감을 갖기 전까지는 사회 정의는 결코 달성될 수 없습니다.

 

42. Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

인생은 위대한 모험이 아니면 아무것도 아니다.

 

43. Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

한때 나는 어둠과 고요함만을 알았습니다... 내 인생에는 과거도 미래도 없었습니다... 하지만 다른 사람의 손가락에서 나온 작은 말이 공허함을 움켜쥐는 내 손에 떨어지자 내 가슴은 삶의 황홀함으로 뛰었습니다.

 

44. All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

온 세상은 고통으로 가득하다. 또한 극복으로 가득하다.

 

45. There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

선조 중에 노예가 없었던 왕은 없고, 노예 중에 왕이 없었던 종도 없습니다.

 

46. The highest result of education is tolerance.

교육의 가장 큰 성과는 관용이다.

 

47. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

우리가 최선을 다할 때, 우리의 삶이나 다른 사람의 삶에 어떤 기적이 일어나는지 결코 알 수 없습니다.

 

48. The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

인간 경험의 놀라운 풍요로움은 극복해야 할 한계가 없다면 보람 있는 기쁨을 어느 정도 잃을 것입니다. 통과해야 할 어두운 골짜기가 없다면 언덕 위의 시간은 절반도 그렇게 훌륭하지 않을 것입니다.

 

49. Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

우리의 처지를 우리보다 더 행운이 좋은 사람들의 처지와 비교하는 대신, 우리는 그것을 우리 동료 대다수의 처지와 비교해야 합니다. 그러면 우리가 특권을 누리는 사람들 중 하나라는 것이 드러납니다.

 

50. Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

전쟁에 반대하라. 당신이 없이는 어떤 전투도 일어날 수 없다!