“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
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door
“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.”
― Helen Keller
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
― Helen Keller
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― Helen Keller
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
― Helen Keller
“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
― Helen Keller
“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
― Helen Keller
“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”
― Helen Keller
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
― Helen Keller
“The highest result of education is tolerance”
― Helen Keller
“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
― Helen Keller
“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
“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.”
― Helen Keller
“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
― Helen Keller
“What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
― Hellen Keller
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
― Helen Keller
“Literature is my Utopia”
― Helen Keller
“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
― Helen Keller
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content”
― Helen Keller
“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”
― Helen Keller
“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.”
― Helen Keller
“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.”
― Helen Keller
“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
― Helen Keller
“Relationships are like Rome — difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt… that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.”
― Helen Keller
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement ”
― Helen Keller
“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
“For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to–a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.”
― Helen Keller
“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
“For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.”
― Helen Keller
“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands – the ownership and control of their livelihoods – are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.”
― 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 darkness, the Voice in my silence.”
― Helen Keller
“So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”
― Helen Keller
“Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
― Helen Keller
“In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their “large loves and heavenly charities.”
― Helen Keller
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It’s what the sunflowers do.”
― Helen Keller
“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”
― 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
“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
― Helen Keller
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
― Helen Keller
“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”
― Hellen Keller
“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”
― Hellen Keller
“So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”
― Helen Keller
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.”
― Helen Keller
“Your success and happiness lie in you.”
― Helen Keller
“My friends have made the story of my life.”
― Helen Keller
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going”
― Helen Keller
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.”
― Hellen Keller