Helen Keller

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

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.

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

Look the world straight in the eye.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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

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.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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

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

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.

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.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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

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

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.

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

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

So little done, so much to do.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

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

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

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.