Helen Keller Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

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

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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