Quotes from Helen Keller

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?

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

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

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.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

The only real blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.

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

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours...never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren plac

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.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

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.

Fear: the best way out is through.

Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.