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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”