Helen Keller Quotes

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

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.

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

Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

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

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

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

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.

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.

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

No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.

The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

The highest result of education is tolerance

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

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

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

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.

I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.

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

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.

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

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.

You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

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

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

I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.

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.

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.

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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

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.

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

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."

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.

I never fight except against difficulties.

[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.

Believe when you are most unhappy that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain life is not in vain.

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.

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

Literature is my utopia.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

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

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.