Helen Keller Quotes

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

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

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.

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

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

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.

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

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

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

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.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

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.

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

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

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

So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.

I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

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

That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

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

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

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

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.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

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.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

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

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

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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

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

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

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

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

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

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

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

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

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

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

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.