Quotes from Helen Keller

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

I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow

When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy.

All that we love deeply becomes part of us.

True, they were broken and stammering syllables; but they were human speech. My soul, conscious of new strength, came out of bondage, and was reaching through those broken symbols of speech to all knowledge and all faith.

Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

To be banished from Rome is but to live outside of Rome.

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. But we keep on trying because we know that others have succeeded, and we are not willing to acknowledge defeat.

Literature is my Utopia...No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends

Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

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In college, there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures–solitude, books and imagination–outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day.

There is nothing more beautiful, I think, than the evanescent fleeting images and sentiments presented by a language one is just becoming familiar with—ideas that flit across the mental sky, shaped and tinted by capricious fancy.

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

Anything I have ever done that was ultimately worthwhile, initially scared me to death!

Some of the most significant discoveries in modern science owe their origin to the imagination of men who had neither accurate knowledge nor exact instruments to demonstrate their beliefs.

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." HELEN KELLER

It seems to me that the great difficulty of writing is to make the language of the educated mind express our confused ideas

What is more exhilarating than to make your staunch little boat, obedient to your will and muscle, go skimming lightly over glistening, tilting waves, and to feel the steady, imperious surge of the water!

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road.