One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
– 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 we have enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
– Helen Keller
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained
through self-gratification, but through fildelity to a worthy purpose.
– Helen Keller
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
– Helen Keller
We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.
– Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
– 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
So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
– Helen Keller
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
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
– Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
– 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
The highest result of education is tolerance.
– Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or
confidence.
– Helen Keller
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
– Helen Keller
The only blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
– Helen Keller
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will
not refuse to do something I can do.
– 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
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
– Helen Keller
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
– Helen Keller
So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
– Helen Keller
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 that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which
bringeth peace.
– 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
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
– Helen Keller
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had
a king among his.
– Helen Keller
It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
– 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
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family
feud.
– Helen Keller
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
– Helen Keller
We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of
them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.
– 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 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.
– Helen Keller
There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
– 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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does
not exist in nature.
– Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched – but are felt in
the heart.
– Helen Keller
People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not
always pleasant.
– Helen Keller
College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
– Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joys in the world.
– 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 skill.
– 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
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to
balance oneself on a bicycle.
– Helen Keller
It gives me a deep comforting sense that “things seen are temporal and things unseen are
eternal.”
– 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
People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not
always pleasant.
– 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 best way out is always through.
– 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
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
– 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
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
– 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
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the
world.
– Helen Keller
Literature is my Utopia.
– 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
If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but
have not faith or purpose.
– Helen Keller
The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he
is placed.
– Helen Keller
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.
– Helen Keller
If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions
of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the
universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the
sweeter for this touch of holiness.
– Helen Keller
When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one’s
brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.
– Helen Keller
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and
sharpens the vision.
– Helen Keller
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we
cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and
darkness.
– Helen Keller
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
– Helen Keller
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
– Helen Keller
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone
in the dark.
– Helen Keller
Our democracy is but a name. We vote. What does that mean? It means that we choose
between two bodies of real – though not avowed – autocrats. We choose between
“Tweedledum” and “Tweedledee.”
– Helen Keller
Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all
men think.
– Helen Keller
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
– Helen Keller
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it
takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
– Helen Keller
What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.
– 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
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
– Helen Keller
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is
strength undefeatable.
– Helen Keller
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.
– Helen Keller
The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate
of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
– 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
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
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin
of human thought.
– Helen Keller
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
– Helen Keller
I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as
we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown
wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.
– Helen Keller
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for
ourselves.
– Helen Keller
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off
disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings
can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the
ever-insistent External.
– Helen Keller
Change: a bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.
– Helen Keller
It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people
neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
– Helen Keller
The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
– Helen Keller
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek
in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I
should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to
fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape
a misery worse than any physical deprivation.
– Helen Keller
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
– Helen Keller
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing
shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means
death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of
destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
– Helen Keller
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them
teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
– Helen Keller
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
– Helen Keller