Helen Keller Quotes
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
-Helen Keller
"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 a daring adventure, or nothing."
-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."
-Helen Keller
"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."
-Helen Keller
"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it."
-Helen Keller
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
-Helen Keller
"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
-Helen Keller
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
-Helen Keller
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
-Helen Keller
"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
-Helen Keller
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
-Helen Keller
"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."
-Helen Keller
"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."
-Helen Keller
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
-Helen Keller
"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
-Helen Keller
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
-Helen Keller