Helen Keller Life Quotations

The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

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

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

Life is an adventure or nothing

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

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.

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

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

Life is a daring adventure, or nothing.

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

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.

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.

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.

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

Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.

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.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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 if we stick to it long enough.

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.

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.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

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

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

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

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

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.

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.

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.