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Helen Keller Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“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, The Open Door
Tagged: Security, Life
“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
— Helen Keller
Tagged: Resistance, Politics Amidst Trolls, Ignorance, Thinking, Reality
“Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”
— Helen Keller, Optimism
Tagged: No Hope, Hope Lost, Darkness
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
— Helen Keller, Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy
Tagged: Friendship
“Although the world is full of suffering it's also full of overcoming it.”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Good, Worldly, Goodness, Suffering
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: danger, Safer, Fear
“Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes real happiness. It is not obtained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Happiness, Health, Love, purpose
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.”
— Helen Keller, 21 Absolutely Heartwrenching Quotes On Loss And Grief
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, beauty, Beautiful, heart
“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 been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Happiness Quotes, Happy, Moving On, Letting Go, Uplifting Quotes
“We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Freely, Wisely, Chose, Evil
“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expand the same amount of energy loving his fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Miracle, Life, chances, Best Day, Good Intensions
“We can never learn to be brave or patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Happiness Quotes, Pain, Understanding Pain
“Mo pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Happy, Sad, Heaven, Human Spirit
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
— Helen Keller, 21 Absolutely Heartwrenching Quotes On Loss And Grief
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love
“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”
— Helen Keller, The Story Of My Life
Tagged: Opportunity, Guardian Angel, Lost Chances
“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind. ”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Greatest Gift, Tolerate, Happiness
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another.”
— Helen Keller, The Story Of My Life
Tagged: Death, What It Feels Like To Die
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Education, Tolerance
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: chances, Adventure, Risk
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