Helen Keller > Quotes

“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.”
― Helen Keller

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― 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

“Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― 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

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
― Helen Keller

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
― 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

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
― Helen Keller

“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
― Helen Keller

“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
― Helen Keller

“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”
― Helen Keller

“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
― Helen Keller

“The highest result of education is tolerance”
― Helen Keller

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
― Helen Keller

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everthing, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do.”
― Helen Keller

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

“For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.”
― 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

“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

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
― 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

“Literature is my Utopia”
― Helen Keller

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement ”
― Helen Keller

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
― Helen Keller

“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”
― Helen Keller

“The best way out is always through”
― Helen Keller

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
― Helen Keller

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

“Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
― Helen Keller

“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
― Helen Keller

“Change: A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn. ”
― Helen Keller

“For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”
― Helen Keller

“I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”
― Helen Keller

“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”
― Helen Keller

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”
― Helen Keller

“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”
― Helen Keller

“Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.”
― Helen Keller

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“My friends have made the story of my life.”
― Helen Keller

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

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

“So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”
― Helen Keller

“The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of
some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent. But in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures--solitude, books and imagination--outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”
― Helen Keller

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ”
― Helen Keller