Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf.… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. .… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
