Quotes from Helen Keller

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

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.

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

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

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

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

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

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

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

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

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

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.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

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

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

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.