Quotes from Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

There's only one story, the story of your life.

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

I have found life so beautiful.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

People don't like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.