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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea.

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.

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.

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.

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

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."

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

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

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.

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.

Just as all things upon earth represent and image forth all the realities of another world, so the Bible is one mighty representative of the whole spiritual life of humanity.

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.

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 fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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.

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.