Helen Keller Quotes

Helen Keller quotes 

1. A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.
2. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
3. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
4. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
5. As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
6. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
10. Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
11. Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
12. Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.
13. I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
14. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
15. Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
16. Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
17. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
18. Knowledge is love and light and vision.
19. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
20. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
21. Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
22. Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
23. 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.
24. Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
25. Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
26. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
27. One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
28. One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
29. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
33. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
34. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.
35. The highest result of education is tolerance.
36. The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
37. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
38. The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
39. To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
40. True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
41. 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.
42. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
43. We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
44. We can never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
45. We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
46. What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
47. What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
48. 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.
49. Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.