Helen Keller

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.”

“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

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

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

“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.”

“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”

“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”

“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”

“True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

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

“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.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

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