Helen Keller

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

"The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- 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

"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 once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us."

- Helen Keller

"Be happy with what you have while working for what you want."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows."

- Helen Keller

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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 that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet."

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows."

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."

- Helen Keller

"“Alone we can do little; together we can do so much.”"

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows. It’s what the flowers do."

- Helen Keller

"The only blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart."

- Helen Keller

"Christmas Day is the festival of optimism."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sun and you cannot see the shadows."

- 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

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

- 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

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard. 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 aspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

"Many incidents of those early years are fixed in my memory, isolated, but clear and distinct, making the sense of that silent, aimless, dayless life all the more intense."

- Helen Keller

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

"True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

"That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset."

- Helen Keller

"Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

- Helen Keller

"We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering."

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

"As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"She has a voice. If you can’t hear it, it’s because you’re too busy talking."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

"Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice."

- Helen Keller

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world — the company of those who have known suffering."

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"The exam is just a stepping stone. Your success and happiness lie in you."

- Helen Keller

""Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.""

- Helen Keller

"When you learn how much you’re worth, you’ll stop giving people discounts."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

""Keep your face to the sun and you cannot see the shadows.""

- Helen Keller

"Your success and happiness lie in you."

- Helen Keller

"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 me, much, very much, has been given me…"

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it."

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."

- 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

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."

- 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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Nobody, who is not blind, as much as they may love their pet, can know what a dog’s love really means. Dogs have traveled all over the world with me. They have always been my companions. A dog has never failed me."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"I knew then that “w-a-t-e-r” meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!"

- Helen Keller

"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

- Helen Keller

"The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities."

- Helen Keller

"If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body."

- Helen Keller

"Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow."

- Helen Keller

"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."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God."

- Helen Keller

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow."

- Helen Keller

"The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"No one has the right to consume happiness without producing it."

- 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

"Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right."

- Helen Keller

"We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others."

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

"Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do."

- Helen Keller

"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."

- Helen Keller

"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 the something that I can do."

- Helen Keller

"The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place."

- Helen Keller

"You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles."

- Helen Keller

"There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness."

- Helen Keller

"When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within--a spirit of growth and beauty."

- Helen Keller

"Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again."

- Helen Keller

"Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing."

- Helen Keller

"I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love."

- Helen Keller

"When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun."

- Helen Keller

"There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself."

- Helen Keller

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land."

- 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

"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 opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"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."

- Helen Keller

"Literature is my Utopia."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"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 is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within."

- 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

"Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss [Anne] Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister’s hand."

- 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

"I long to accomplish a great a noble task; but it is my chief responsibility to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

- Helen Keller

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."

- Helen Keller

"When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles — a delight in climbing rugged paths, which you would perhaps never know if you did not sometime slip backward — if the road was always smooth and pleasant."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

""Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.""

- Helen Keller

""Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.""

- 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

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all"

- Helen Keller

"All the world is full with suffering. It is also full with overcoming."

- Helen Keller

"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Life is a daring adventure, or nothing."

- 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

"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."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."

- Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched but are felt in the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face towards the light of the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows."

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do."

- Helen Keller

"A favorite quote:"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.""

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."

- Helen Keller

"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."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Each lesson in life must be learned through experience."

- Helen Keller

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we have loved deeply, becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

""The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard. They must be felt with the heart.""

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"My fingers are tickled to delight by the soft ripple of a baby’s laugh."

- Helen Keller

"The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart."

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It’s what the sunflowers do."

- Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart."

- Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, or touched, but are felt in the heart."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sun and you cannot see the shadows"

- Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness."

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow."

- Helen Keller

"Our achievements are minimal when we work alone but reach great heights when we unite."

- Helen Keller

"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved, we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us."

- Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"

- Helen Keller

"bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

""Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.""

- Helen Keller

"When we work together our accomplishments multiply greatly compared to what we achieve alone."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"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."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!"

- Helen Keller

"The morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me."

- Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing"

- Helen Keller

"A favorite quote: "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.""

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization."

- Helen Keller

"Together, we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me."

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

""We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.""

- Helen Keller

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature."

- Helen Keller

""Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.""

- Helen Keller