Quotes from Hellen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

I believe that the welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all I believe that life is given us so we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower the light in my darkness, the voice in my silence I believe that only in broken gleams has the Sun of Truth yet shone upon men

La seguridad es principalmente superstición. No existe en la naturaleza... La vida es una audaz aventura o nada

Those who have eyes see little .

With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope. Darkness cannot shut me in again. I have had a glimpse of the shore, and can now live by the hope of reaching it.

i feel that her being is inseparable from my own, and that the footsteps of my life are in hers. all the best of me belong to her, there is not a talent or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not awakened by her loving touch.... about her teacher: ann sulivan.

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort what we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.