Helen Keller Quotes - Page 2

American - Author June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller

May, Remedy, Them

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

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

Business, Most, Exciting

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

True Happiness, Through

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

Feather, Winged, Wounded

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

Inspirational, My Life

Knowledge is love and light and vision. - Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller

Love, Knowledge, Vision

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. Helen Keller

Door, Goal, Desire

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. Helen Keller

Nature, Luxurious, Needles

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

New, Spirit, Discovered

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

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

Happiness, Producing, Right

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. - Helen Keller

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. Helen Keller

Vision, See, Terrible Thing

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. Helen Keller

Wise, World, Never

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. Helen Keller

Mind, Bicycle, Gift

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing. - Helen Keller

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing. Helen Keller

Nothing, Interest, Hard

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

Sky, Religion, Climb

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. Helen Keller

Love, Mind, Sharpens

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. Helen Keller

May, Remedy, Them

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

Will, Civilization, May

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

Best, Never, Wrought

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done. - Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done. Helen Keller

Themselves, Were, Among

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. Helen Keller

Moved, Also, Pushes

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. Helen Keller

Half, Rewarding, Richness

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. - Helen Keller

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Helen Keller

Next, Heresy, Orthodoxy

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. Helen Keller

Think, Always, Like

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen Keller

Happiness, Wonders, May

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. Helen Keller

Sad, Think, Vague

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