Helen Keller quotes

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. (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
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
Life is a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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. (Helen Keller)
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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
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.
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
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller
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.
Helen Keller
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. (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
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
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
Helen Keller
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