Helen KellerI have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.372Life
Helen KellerA simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea ✨ Helen Keller (2007). My Religion, p.185, Book Tree372HopeReading
Helen KellerNow I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier,… ▶362LifeReading
Helen KellerGod doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding… ▶373Life
Helen KellerI do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it. ✨ Helen Keller (2000). To Love this Life: Quotations, p.73, American Foundation for t… ▶352LifeLove
Helen KellerThe highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize th… ▶374DeathHope
Helen KellerThe chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them. ✨ Helen Keller (2000). To Love this Life: Quotations, p.105, American Found… ▶363HumanityLifeLove
Helen KellerThe true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better. ✨ Helen Keller (2000). To Love this Life: Quotations, p.106, American Fou… ▶352LifeLoveTruth
Helen KellerMy friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. ✨ Helen Keller (2016). The Story of My Life, p.85, O… ▶341LifeReading
Helen KellerKeep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.374Reading
Helen KellerOne's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and … ▶342LifeLovePolitics
Helen KellerI am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the… ▶375LifeLoveTruth
Helen KellerTolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. ✨ Helen Keller (2012). The World I Live In and Optimism: A Colle… ▶375HopeThought
Helen KellerLiterature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarr… ▶331LifeReading
Helen KellerSo long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. ✨ Helen Keller (2000). To Love this Life: Quotations, p.33, American Found… ▶331LifeLove
Helen KellerMilitarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.375Humanity
Helen KellerStrike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. ✨ Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Part… ▶365Humanity
Helen KellerCollege isn't the place to go for ideas. ✨ Helen Keller (1967). Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches343Thought
Helen KellerMany persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ✨ Helen Keller (20… ▶343HopeThoughtTruth
Helen KellerThe worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.333Politics
Helen KellerThings must be felt with the heart.333Love
Helen KellerIf I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring… ▶322HopeLifeReflection
Helen KellerFaith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world. ✨ Helen Keller (2000). To Love this Life: Quotations, p.20, American Founda… ▶355HopeLifeLove
Helen KellerA good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.366Humanity
Helen KellerIdeas without action are useless.333Thought
Helen KellerI can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.333Reading
Helen KellerHappiness does not come from without, it comes from within311Death
Helen KellerWhen we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. ✨ Helen Keller (1957). The Open Door, Garden City, N.Y. : Doub… ▶377Life
Helen KellerI 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.377Love
Helen KellerWe, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our… ▶323Humanity