Explore Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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

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

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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