Quotes from Helen Keller

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their large loves and heavenly charities.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

My friends have made the story of my life.

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

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.