Helen Keller

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

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.

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

When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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.

When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keep your eyes to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

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

We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

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.

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.

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

I am only one; but still I am one. I may not be able to do everything, but still I can do something.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

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.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.

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

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched... but felt in the heart.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

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

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.

I am only one, still I am one. I can not do everything, still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.