Helen Keller

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

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.”

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”

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

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

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

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”

“Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.”

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

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

“I am a child of God, an inheritor of a fragment of the mind that created all worlds.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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 heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”

“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.”

“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”

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

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”

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

“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”