Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller Quote
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller Quote
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.
- Helen Keller Quote
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller Quote
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller Quote
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 Quote
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller Quote
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 Quote
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
- Helen Keller Quote
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.
- Helen Keller Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
- Helen Keller Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
- Helen Keller Quote
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Helen Keller Quote
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller Quote
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller Quote
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller Quote
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.
- Helen Keller Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
- Helen Keller Quote
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller Quote
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
- Helen Keller Quote
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 Quote
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller Quote
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.
- Helen Keller Quote
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller Quote
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
- Helen Keller Quote
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller Quote
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 Quote
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller Quote
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller Quote
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller Quote
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller Quote
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.
- Helen Keller Quote
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller Quote
- Helen Keller Quote
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 Quote
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller Quote
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller Quote
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller Quote
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller Quote
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller Quote
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 Quote
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller Quote
