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Helen Keller
Quotes by Helen Keller
Quotes by 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
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
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
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
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
“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.”
Helen Keller
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
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
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
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
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
Helen Keller
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
Helen Keller
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
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
“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
Helen Keller
“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”
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
“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
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
Helen Keller
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
Helen Keller
“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”
Helen Keller
“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
Helen Keller
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”
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
“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
“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
“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
