746 Quotes by Helen Keller

The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.

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

I am only one but still i am one

We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcomings of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.