“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
– Helen Keller
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
– Helen Keller
“Many 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
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
– Helen Keller
“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
– Helen Keller
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
– Helen Keller
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
– Helen Keller
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.”
– Helen Keller
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
– Helen Keller
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
– Helen Keller
“When 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
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller
“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.”
– Helen Keller
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
– Helen Keller