Helen Keller Quotes

“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”

“What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.”

“A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.”

“We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.”

“Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.”

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

“Fear: the best way out is through.”

“Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.”

“The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.”

“There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.”

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”

“The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.”

“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”

“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.”

“Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.”

“When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?”

“Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.”

“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.”

“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”

“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”

“We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.”

“Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.”

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

“I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.”

“In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.”