“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” These words by Helen Keller remind us that true happiness comes from within. And what better way to feel inspired than to read some of the most famous quotes by Helen Keller?
From overcoming adversity to pointing out life’s simple beauty, Helen Keller’s words have a way of resonating with everyone. We hope you enjoy reading these quotes just as much as we did curating them. So without further ado, here are 49 of her most memorable quotes! Enjoy!
Enjoy these quotes by Helen Keller…
1) “A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
2) “All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”
3) “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
4) “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
5) “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 the something that I can do.”
6) “As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
7) “Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
8) “Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.”
9) “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.”
Helen Keller Quotes about Character, Education, and Death
10) “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.”
11) “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.”
12) “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
13) “Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”
14) “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
15) “A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
16) “The highest result of education is tolerance”
17) “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
18) “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
19) “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.”
Quotes about Spring, Adventure, and Success
20) “I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.”
21) “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
22) “What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
23) “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.”
24) “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.”
25) “The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”
26) “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
27) “No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”
28) “Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
29) “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Helen Keller Quotes about Vision, Optimism, and Security
30) “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”
31) “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
32) “The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.”
33) “When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one’s brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.”
34) “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.”
35) “Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
36) “The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
37) “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
38) “There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”
39) “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.”
Quotes on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
40) “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.”
41) “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.”
42) “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
43) “We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.”
44) “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
45) “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.”
46) “While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.”
47) “The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
48) “You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.”
49) “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
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