Helen Keller the Author, biography, facts and quotes

"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 that has been opened for us"

"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"

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart"

"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"

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light"

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

"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"

"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness"

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow"

"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his"

"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"

"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged"

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

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

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much"

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

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye"

"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done"

"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"

"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length"

"It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing"

"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"

"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision"

"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug"

"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"

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

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

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

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

"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious"

"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming"

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another"

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold"

"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"

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

"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"

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble"

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

"I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world"

"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse"

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing"

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant"

Born as	Helen Adams Keller
Occup.	Author
From	USA
Born	June 27, 1880 Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA
Died	June 1, 1968 Easton, Connecticut, USA
Cause	Natural causes
Aged	87 years

Helen Keller Biography

64 Famous quotes by Helen Keller