Quotes by Helen Keller

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

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.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

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.

You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

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

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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 towards our distant goal.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

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.

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

God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His work.

The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land.

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.

I never fight except against difficulties.