The Best Helen Keller quotes

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing. — Helen Keller

Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart. — Helen Keller

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. — Helen Keller

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend. — Helen Keller

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self–reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals. — Helen Keller

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world. — Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched–they must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows — Helen Keller

Look the world straight in the eye. — Helen Keller

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it. — Helen Keller

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated. — Helen Keller

We would never learn to be patient if there Were only joy in the world. — Helen Keller

Unless we can help the world where we are, we could not help it if we were somewhere else. — Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. — Helen Keller

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination. — Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller

Self–pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. — Helen Keller

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world. — Helen Keller

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you… — Helen Keller

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud. — Helen Keller

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring. — Helen Keller

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. — Helen Keller

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. — Helen Keller

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world––the company of those who have known suffering. — Helen Keller

The idea of brotherhood re–dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed. — Helen Keller

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. — Helen Keller

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. — Helen Keller

I don’t want to live in a hand–me–down world of others’ experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me. — Helen Keller

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within. — Helen Keller

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances. — Helen Keller

True happiness… is not attained through self–gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. — Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lie in you. — Helen Keller

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective. — Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. — Helen Keller

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. it is not attained through self–gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. — Helen Keller

Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there. — Helen Keller

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge–broad, deep knowledge–is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. — Helen Keller

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves. — Helen Keller

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others. — Helen Keller

Life is either a great adventure or nothing. — Helen Keller

Life is a daring adventure or nothing. — Helen Keller

There’s only one story, the story of your life. — Helen Keller

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. — Helen Keller

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. — Helen Keller

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. — Helen Keller

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all. — Helen Keller

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold. — Helen Keller

So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain. — Helen Keller

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first. — Helen Keller

The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. — Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. — Helen Keller

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. — Helen Keller

My friends have made the story of my life. — Helen Keller

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses! — Helen Keller

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life. — Helen Keller

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

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. — Helen Keller

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life. — Helen Keller

The best things in life are not seen or heard … but felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light. — Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision. — Helen Keller

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. — Helen Keller

There is joy in self–forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others’ ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness. — Helen Keller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. — Helen Keller

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. — Helen Keller

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. — Helen Keller

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come. — Helen Keller

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day–lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. — Helen Keller

I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness. — Helen Keller

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places. — Helen Keller

The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by. — Helen Keller

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower–the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. — Helen Keller

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world. — Helen Keller

I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love. — Helen Keller

I know that lIfe Is gIven us so that we may grow In love. and I belIeve that god Is In me as the sun Is In the color and fragrance of the flower, the lIght In my darkness, the voIce In my sIlence. — Helen Keller

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. — Helen Keller

Love? Why … it is what everybody feels for everybody else. — Helen Keller

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn’t feel so all alone. — Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when One feels an impulse to soar. — Helen Keller

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. — Helen Keller

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn’t make life any sweeter or happier, does it? — Helen Keller

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. — Helen Keller

While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities. — Helen Keller

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side–even if only that it is not worse…and it can always be worse — Helen Keller

Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again. — Helen Keller

You cannot touch love but you can feel the sweetness it pours into everything. — Helen Keller

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me. — Helen Keller

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams. — Helen Keller

The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel. — Helen Keller

It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more. — Helen Keller

There are none so blind as those who will not see! — Helen Keller

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind. — Helen Keller

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. — Helen Keller

To be blind is bad, but worse is To have eyes and not see. — Helen Keller

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity. — Helen Keller

If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose. — Helen Keller

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them. — Helen Keller

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. — Helen Keller

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision. — Helen Keller

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision. — Helen Keller

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision. — Helen Keller

Is there anything worse than being blind? yes, a man with sight and no vIsion. — Helen Keller

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. — Helen Keller