Quotes from Helen Keller

A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

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

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

My friends have made the story of my life.

Life is an adventure or nothing

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.