72 Quotes By Helen Keller


Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller on life

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 on life

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

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

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 on love

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller on love

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller on men

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 on men

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller on men

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller on motivational

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

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller on nature

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

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

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 on religion

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 on religion

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 on sad

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 on science