Quotes by Helen Keller

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have 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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”

“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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