88 Helen Keller Quotes

You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.