Quotes By Helen Keller

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

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

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 something that I can do.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

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

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

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

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.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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.

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

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

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

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

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

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.