Quotes from Helen Keller

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.

A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

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 the something that I can do.

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.

What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.

While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.

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.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

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

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

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