Written by Pastor Jack Wellman 87
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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.
- Helen Keller
85
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
- Helen Keller
84
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
- Helen Keller
82
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
81
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
80
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.
- Helen Keller
79
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
77
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.
- Helen Keller
76
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
75
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
74
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.
- Helen Keller
73
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
72
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.
- Helen Keller
71
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.
- Helen Keller
70
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
69
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.
- Helen Keller
67
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
65
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
- Helen Keller
64
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
- Helen Keller
62
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
- Helen Keller
59
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller
58
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.
- Helen Keller
57
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
56
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller
55
I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.
- Helen Keller
54
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.
- Helen Keller
53
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.
- Helen Keller
52
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.
- Helen Keller
51
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
- Helen Keller
49
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
48
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
- Helen Keller
47
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.
- Helen Keller
46
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.
- Helen Keller
45
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
44
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller
43
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
42
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
39
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
- Helen Keller
