Helen Keller

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

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

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

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

A happy life consists not in the absence but in the mastery of hardships.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

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.

Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

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

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.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

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

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

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

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Things must be felt with the heart.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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 that has opened for us.

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.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

College isnt the place to go for ideas.

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 that has been opened for us.

Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of overcoming it.

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

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

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.

So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

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

The idea of brotherhood re dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do.

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

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.

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.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

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.

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

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

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

A bend in the road is not the end of the roadUnless you fail to make the turn.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.

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

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

We 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.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

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

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

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

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

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.

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.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

True happiness is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of todays 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 joy in overcoming obstacles.

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.

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

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

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

Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may come tomorrow.

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

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

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

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

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

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

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

If the blind put their hands in Gods they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

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.