Quotes from Helen Keller
While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.
- Helen Keller
What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
- Helen Keller
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
- Helen Keller
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
- Helen Keller
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- Helen Keller
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
- Helen Keller
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
- Helen Keller
The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
- Helen Keller
There's only one story, the story of your life.
- Helen Keller
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
- Helen Keller