Quotes by Helen Keller

[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Believe when you are most unhappy that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten anothers pain life is not in vain.

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.

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship tense and anxious groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began only I was without compass or sounding line and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. Light! Give me light! was the wordless cry of my soul and rhe light of love shone on me in that very hour.

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.

Literature is my utopia.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of todays failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

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.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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

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.

I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

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 the something that I can do.

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

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.