Helen Keller Quotes - Page 2

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

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.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... 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.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

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.

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n'est rien.

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 something that I can do.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

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

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

I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.