Helen Keller Quotes

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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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

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.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The highest result of education is tolerance

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

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

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.

Literature is my Utopia

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.

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

Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land."

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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.

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

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

[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

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

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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

God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His works.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

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

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

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.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong but it will advance its allotted length.

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

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

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

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.

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

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.

The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

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.

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

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 the something that I can do.