Helen Keller Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Life, Inspirational, Heart, Future, Past

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

World, Eagle, Skill, Own, Hand, Arrow

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

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

Vision, World, Someone, Person, Sight

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

Light, Darkness, Bible, Moments, Habit

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

Good, Time, Men, Religion, People, Devil

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

Happiness, Silence, Darkness, Learn, May

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

Experience, Joy, Dark, Lose, Human, Half

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller

Great, Small, Long, Duty, Noble, Task

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

People, Think, Reach, Always, Like, Must

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

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

Sight, Most, Senses, Must, Delightful

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

Gift, Mind, Effort, Brain, Balance, Same

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

Great, Travel, Door, Forward, Desire, Go

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

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

Brainy, Never, Soar, Consent, Impulse

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

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

Stars, New, Human, Secret, Human Spirit

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

Saying, Done, Cannot, Were, Themselves

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, God, Religion, Me, Mountains, Climb

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

Nature, Welcome, Me, Grass, More, Than

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

Worst, Human, Apathy, May, Most, Found

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, Hard, Everything, Interest, Who

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

Fear, Long, Bold, Run, Avoiding, Than

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

Love, Mind, Vision, Joy, Selfishness

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. Helen Keller

Death, Me, You, Know, See, Difference

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

Happiness, True Happiness, Purpose, True

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, Flowers, Me, Think, Never, Breeze

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

Life, Best, Know, Never, Miracle, Our

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