Helen Keller quote: "Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging moods of the human mind come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? Other feet have traveled that road before me, and I know the desert leads to god as surely as the green, refreshing fields, and orchards."

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian ...
HELEN KELLER

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life o...
HELEN KELLER

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

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place ...
HELEN KELLER

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
HELEN KELLER

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may b...
HELEN KELLER

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable r...
HELEN KELLER

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
HELEN KELLER

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
HELEN KELLER

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
HELEN KELLER

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
HELEN KELLER

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

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you k...
HELEN KELLER

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
HELEN KELLER

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of ye...
HELEN KELLER

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

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within th...
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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I ha...
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
HELEN KELLER

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others
HELEN KELLER

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of t...
HELEN KELLER

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because...
HELEN KELLER

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with ...
HELEN KELLER

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through se...
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the childr...
HELEN KELLER

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
HELEN KELLER

The best way out is always through.
HELEN KELLER

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -...
HELEN KELLER

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know....
HELEN KELLER

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
HELEN KELLER

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that ...
HELEN KELLER

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

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
HELEN KELLER

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is...
HELEN KELLER

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we d...
HELEN KELLER

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

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

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowled...
HELEN KELLER

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
HELEN KELLER

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the...
HELEN KELLER

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can...
HELEN KELLER

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whol...
HELEN KELLER

I know that faith made my life possible and that of many others like me... Reason hardly warranted A...
HELEN KELLER

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of ano...
HELEN KELLER

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

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was ...
HELEN KELLER

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have live...
HELEN KELLER

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens th...
HELEN KELLER

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

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes ...
HELEN KELLER

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange ...
HELEN KELLER

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppos...
HELEN KELLER

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
HELEN KELLER

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the...
HELEN KELLER

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

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
HELEN KELLER

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
HELEN KELLER

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and becaus...
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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free s...
HELEN KELLER

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

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin o...
HELEN KELLER

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the he...
HELEN KELLER

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children o...
HELEN KELLER

I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God
HELEN KELLER

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a who...
HELEN KELLER

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

Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water.
HELEN KELLER

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

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--...
HELEN KELLER

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can ...
HELEN KELLER

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed...
HELEN KELLER

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

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as t...
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the childr...
HELEN KELLER

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt wi...
HELEN KELLER

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
HELEN KELLER

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure...
HELEN KELLER

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of ...
HELEN KELLER

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the sa...
HELEN KELLER

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can ...
HELEN KELLER

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no li...
HELEN KELLER

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an in...
HELEN KELLER

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
HELEN KELLER

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

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
HELEN KELLER

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
HELEN KELLER

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

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

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

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a ne...
HELEN KELLER

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

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, ther...
HELEN KELLER

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

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if...
HELEN KELLER

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
HELEN KELLER

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
HELEN KELLER

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

Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
HELEN KELLER

The highest result of education is tolerance
HELEN KELLER

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whol...
HELEN KELLER

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-g...
HELEN KELLER

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpo...
HELEN KELLER

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other&#...
HELEN KELLER

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the ...
HELEN KELLER

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -...
HELEN KELLER

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounde...
HELEN KELLER

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from t...
HELEN KELLER

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

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

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the he...
HELEN KELLER

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

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go for...
HELEN KELLER

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have liv...
HELEN KELLER

Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'gold...
HELEN KELLER

Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.
HELEN KELLER

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt wi...
HELEN KELLER

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have liv...
HELEN KELLER

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
HELEN KELLER

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

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new do...
HELEN KELLER

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

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self...
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children...
HELEN KELLER

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as t...
HELEN KELLER

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to...
HELEN KELLER

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
HELEN KELLER

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I sh...
HELEN KELLER

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
HELEN KELLER

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be...
HELEN KELLER

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-...
HELEN KELLER

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that ...
HELEN KELLER

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if...
HELEN KELLER

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

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist i...
HELEN KELLER

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
HELEN KELLER

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

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compar...
HELEN KELLER

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

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tin...
HELEN KELLER

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a n...
HELEN KELLER

Every modern war has had its root in exploitation
HELEN KELLER

As I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I ...
HELEN KELLER

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
HELEN KELLER

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
HELEN KELLER

We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good
HELEN KELLER

. . . militarism . . . is one of the chief bulwarks of capitalism, and the day that militarism is un...
HELEN KELLER

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
HELEN KELLER

When one door of happiness closes, another opens.
HELEN KELLER

The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He lea...
HELEN KELLER

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be b...
HELEN KELLER

The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover...
HELEN KELLER

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You h...
HELEN KELLER

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or tha...
HELEN KELLER

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt wi...
HELEN KELLER

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's...
HELEN KELLER

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word f...
HELEN KELLER

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days d...
HELEN KELLER

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my ...
HELEN KELLER

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk thro...
HELEN KELLER

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
HELEN KELLER

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart becau...
HELEN KELLER

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
HELEN KELLER

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
HELEN KELLER

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincere...
HELEN KELLER

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you pati...
HELEN KELLER

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

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of ...
HELEN KELLER

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You h...
HELEN KELLER

I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
HELEN KELLER

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my ...
HELEN KELLER

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

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

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part ...
HELEN KELLER

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

I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I fe...
HELEN KELLER

Literature is my utopia.
HELEN KELLER

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can ...
HELEN KELLER

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

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

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you pat...
HELEN KELLER

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can...
HELEN KELLER

There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret th...
HELEN KELLER

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new ...
HELEN KELLER

No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of natur...
HELEN KELLER

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens th...
HELEN KELLER

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it
HELEN KELLER

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because...
HELEN KELLER

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I c...
HELEN KELLER

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

I can feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.
HELEN KELLER

I'm not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
HELEN KELLER

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, an...
HELEN KELLER

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