Helen Keller Quotes

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

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

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.

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

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

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

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

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

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

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

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

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

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.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

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.

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