Helen Keller

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works.

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

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.

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should com

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

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

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

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.

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

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

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

I am only one; but still I am one. I may not be able to do everything, but still I can do something.

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.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

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

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 goal.

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

Blindness cuts us off from things, but deafness cuts us off from people.

The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

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

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

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

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.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.