Quotes from Helen Keller

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

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

True happiness…not not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks.

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

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.n

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.

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.

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.