The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller

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.
- Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Helen Keller

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
- Helen Keller

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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
- 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.
- Helen Keller

What I am looking for is not “out there”, it is in me.
- Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
- Helen Keller

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens.
- Helen Keller

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
- Helen Keller

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
- Helen Keller

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
- Helen Keller

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
- Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

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

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

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.
- Helen Keller

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content
- Helen Keller

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

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