Helen Keller

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

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

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

“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...”

“Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet”

“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 spiri...”

“Your success and happiness lie in you.”

“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”

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

“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 m...”

“Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my hear...”