Quotes from Helen Keller

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.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

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.

So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

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.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

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

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

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

Things must be felt with the heart.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

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

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

We should respect all people.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.