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

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.
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.
Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller

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

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

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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.
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.
Helen Keller

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.
Helen Keller

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
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

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

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller

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

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