Helen Keller Quotes

Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

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

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

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

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

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

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.

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

Fear: the best way out is through.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

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

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

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.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

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

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

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

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

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

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

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

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

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

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.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

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

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

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

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.

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

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

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.