Quotes from Helen Keller

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

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.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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

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.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

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

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

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.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

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

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same

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

I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God