Quotes by Helen Keller

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

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.

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

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

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

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

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

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

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

Its wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

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

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.

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.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.

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.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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.

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

Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.