746 Quotes by Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.