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.”

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

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

“The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”

“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.”

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

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

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”

“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”

“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

“I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”

“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”

“Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.”

“Your success and happiness lie in you.”

“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.”

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

“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.”

“There are times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed mind cannot enjoy the treasure it has secured at the greatest cost. ... When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot...”

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

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

“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”

“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”

“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”

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

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

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

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

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

“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.”

“For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it ag...”

“The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the...”

“Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.”

“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.”

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

“It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…”

“For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.”

“I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.”

“I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.”

“My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.”

“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.”

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

“God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His work.”

“The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.”

“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.”

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

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

“Literature is my utopia.”

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”

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

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

“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

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

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

“Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.”

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”