Helen Keller Quotes: 43

• 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.

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

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

• I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

• Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

• Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

  The Open Door

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

• 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.

• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much

• Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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

• 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.

• People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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

• What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

• Literature is my Utopia

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

• Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

• A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

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

• 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.

• Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.

• Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  The Open Door

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

• I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

• Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

• Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

• 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.

  The Story of My Life

• Your success and happiness lie in you.

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

• Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.

  The Story of My Life

• 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.

• It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

  The Story of My Life

• It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…

  The Open Door

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

• Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

  The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887 1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy

• La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n'est rien.

• I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

  The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887 1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy

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

• Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

• Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... 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.

  Optimism