Words matter. These are the best Helen Keller Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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.
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.
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.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
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.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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.
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
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.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
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.
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.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
