3 December 2020 Helen Keller 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller 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.
