746 Quotes by Helen Keller

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.

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

They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.