Hellen Keller Quotes

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

• We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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

• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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. 

• 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.

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

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

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

• No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.