746 Quotes by Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

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 don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

Look the world straight in the eye.