Quotes by

Helen Keller

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision. – Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. – Helen Keller

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

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – 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

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

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

Life is either a great adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

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

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

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

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

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. – Helen Keller

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

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 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