Helen Keller quotes

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

— Helen Keller

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”

— Helen Keller

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

— 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The 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 we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

— 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

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

— 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

“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

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— 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

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

— Helen Keller

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

— 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

“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

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— 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

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