Quotes by Helen Keller

“The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens.”

“I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A man cant make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.”

“My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness”

“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”

“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”

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

“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.”

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

“Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.”

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But theres a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”

“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”

“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves”

“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.”

“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.”

“‘Character is like the fire within the flint-latent until it is struck out of the stone. Observing the flint stone, who would think it contained the possibility of light? And so it is with the dark experiences of life. And it is only us, individually, that decide what that darkness is, even without quite knowing the reasons for its being. And then we must learn to let light enter. When they are met with courage, they give out sparks of spiritual light.’”