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All Quotes by author - Helen Keller

" All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. "

" Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. "

" Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. "

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

" As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. "

" Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. "

" 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. "

" College isn't the place to go for ideas. "

" Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. "

" Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. "

" Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. "

" I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world. "

" I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. "

" I 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. "

" Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. "

" I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. "

" It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. "

" It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. "

" It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing. "

" It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. "

" It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. "

" It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. "

" Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. "

" Knowledge is love and light and vision. "

" Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. "

" Life is either a great adventure or nothing. "

" Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. "

" Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. "

" Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either. "

" 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. "

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