Helen Keller Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

"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."

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

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker."

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."

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