Quotes from Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities, and in its brief course I discern all the verities and realities of my existence; the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the spirit of beauty.

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.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's 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 that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

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.

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

The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that "w-a-t-e-r" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free!

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

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

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Confidence is the master of fate.

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

I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name.

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

No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.