Helen Keller Quotes

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

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

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... view

By: Helen Keller

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence... view

By: Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance... view

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next... view

By: Helen Keller

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!.. view

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

Science may have found a cure for most evils.. view

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

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... view

By: Helen Keller

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

By: 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... view

By: Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils.. view

By: Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit... view

By: Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar... view

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done... view

By: 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... view

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

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... view

By: Helen Keller

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self... view

By: Helen Keller

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... view

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

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... view

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.. view

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller

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... view

By: Helen Keller

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision... view

By: Helen Keller

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged... view

By: Helen Keller

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times.. view

By: 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... view

By: Helen Keller

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... view

By: Helen Keller

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

By: Helen Keller