Helen Keller

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

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant …

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either…

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

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

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the pr…

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either…

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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