Helen Keller
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
-Helen Keller
age
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
-Helen Keller
alone
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
-Helen Keller
alone
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
best
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
best
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-Helen Keller
business
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
death
The highest result of education is tolerance.
-Helen Keller
education
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
experience
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
experience
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
-Helen Keller
experience
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.
-Helen Keller
experience
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
-Helen Keller
faith
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
-Helen Keller
faith
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
-Helen Keller
friendship
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
-Helen Keller
friendship
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.
-Helen Keller
future
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
god
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
good
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
-Helen Keller
good
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
great
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
great
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
-Helen Keller
great
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
-Helen Keller
great
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
-Helen Keller
great
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
-Helen Keller
happiness
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-Helen Keller
happiness
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
happiness
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
happiness
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
happiness
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
-Helen Keller
happiness
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
-Helen Keller
hope
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
inspirational
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.
-Helen Keller
inspirational
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
-Helen Keller
intelligence
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
-Helen Keller
knowledge
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