To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. - Helen Keller
Your success and happiness lie in you. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. - Helen Keller
We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. - Helen Keller
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. - Helen Keller
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. - Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. - Helen Keller
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content. - Helen Keller
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. - Helen Keller
Literature is my Utopia - Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance. - Helen Keller
College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Helen Keller
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us. - Helen Keller
Keep your eyes to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. - Helen Keller
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness. - Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. - Helen Keller
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. - Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows. - Helen Keller
I'm not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - 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. - Helen Keller
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued. - Helen Keller
People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. - Helen Keller
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Helen Keller
The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom. - Helen Keller
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller
Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision. - Helen Keller
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas. - Helen Keller
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived. - Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content - Helen Keller
La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n'est rien. - Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched- they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. - Helen Keller
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. - Helen Keller
Knowledge is love and light and vision. - Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. - Helen Keller
I am only one, still I am one. I can not do everything, still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do - Helen Keller
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn. - Helen Keller
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within - Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. - Helen Keller
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. - Helen Keller
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Helen Keller
The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it. - Helen Keller
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. - Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much - Helen Keller
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee... - Helen Keller
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. - Helen Keller
What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me. - Helen Keller
Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. - Helen Keller
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision. - Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. - Helen Keller
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. - Helen Keller
No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit - Helen Keller
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. - Helen Keller
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us. - Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
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. - Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure. - Helen Keller
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. - Helen Keller
No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. - Helen Keller