Selected Helen Keller Quotations Pages 1 | 2 | 3
• Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
• 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.
• One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar.
• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
• When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?
• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
• 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.
• I seldom think of 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.
• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
• When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
• Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
• Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
• Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
• Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
• To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
• Knowledge is love and light and vision.
• As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
• We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
• While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2005. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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