Quotes

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

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
-Helen Keller

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
-Helen Keller

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.
-Helen Keller

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
-Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
-Helen Keller

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
-Helen Keller

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
-Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
-Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-Helen Keller

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
-Helen Keller

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

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
-Helen Keller

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skil.
-Helen Keller

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
-Helen Keller

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.
-Helen Keller

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
-Helen Keller

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

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
-Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance.
-Helen Keller

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

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

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
-Helen Keller

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
-Helen Keller

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
-Helen Keller

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
-Helen Keller

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

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
-Helen Keller

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
-Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-Helen Keller

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
-Helen Keller

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
-Helen Keller

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

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.
-Helen Keller

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
-Helen Keller

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.
-Helen Keller

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
-Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
-Helen Keller

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.
-Helen Keller

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.
-Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
-Helen Keller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
-Helen Keller

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

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.
-Helen Keller

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
-Helen Keller

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
-Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller