Quotes from Helen Keller

I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…

Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

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.

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

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.

While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

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 am only one, but still I am one.I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.