Explore Quotes by Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

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.

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

They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.

The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I am only one,_x000D_But still I am one. _x000D_I cannot do everything, _x000D_But still I can do something; _x000D_And because I cannot do everything, _x000D_I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

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

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