Quotes By Helen Keller

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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