Quotes By Helen Keller

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

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.

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

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

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.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

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

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

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

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.

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

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

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

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

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

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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

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

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

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.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

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

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

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

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