Helen Keller Quotes

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done,

it was done.

My life has been so happy

because I have had many friends and much work to do.

True teaching cannot be learned from textbooks

any more than a sunbeam can be learned from a physics book.

Everything has its wonders,

even darkness and silence,

and I learn,

whatever state I may be in,

therein to be content.

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.

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.

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

Literature is my Utopia.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,

or sailed to an uncharted land,

or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world

shall emerge into the light.

To keep our faces toward change and behave like

free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

It is not attained through self

gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

All the world is full of suffering.

It is also full of overcoming.

I am only one,

but still I am one.

I cannot do everything,

but still I can do something.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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 which has been opened for us.

Self

pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it,

we can never do anything wise in this world.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Although the world is full of suffering,

it is also full of the overcoming of it.

The only thing worse than being blind is

having sight but no vision.