88 Helen Keller Quotes

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 something that I can do.

You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

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.

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.

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.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

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

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.

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

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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

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

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

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

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

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

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