Top 400 Helen Keller Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.”

— Helen Keller

152. “I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.”

— Helen Keller

153. “We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.”

— Helen Keller

154. “World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.”

— Helen Keller

155. “Character is not achieved by ease and quiet, it develops through trial and suffering.”

— Helen Keller

156. “Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.”

— Helen Keller

157. “Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.”

— Helen Keller

158. “I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.”

— Helen Keller

159. “We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: “Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes.””

— Helen Keller

160. “I never fight, except against difficulties.”

— Helen Keller

161. “Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.”

— Helen Keller

162. “There’s only one story, the story of your life.”

— Helen Keller

163. “The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way.”

— Helen Keller

164. “I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”

— Helen Keller

165. “The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.”

— Helen Keller

166. “Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.”

— Helen Keller

167. “We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.”

— Helen Keller

168. “There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.”

— Helen Keller

169. “It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.”

— Helen Keller

170. “Look the world straight in the eye.”

— Helen Keller

171. “The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.”

— Helen Keller

172. “A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.”

— Helen Keller

173. “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.”

— Helen Keller

174. “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.”

— Helen Keller

175. “The things you do today that you don’t have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.”

— Helen Keller

176. “I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.”

— Helen Keller

177. “If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.”

— Helen Keller

178. “Is love the sweetness of flowers?”

— Helen Keller

179. “If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.”

— Helen Keller

180. “The joy of surmounting obstacles that once seemed unremovable and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further-what other joy is there like it?”

— Helen Keller

181. “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.”

— Helen Keller

182. “I have found life so beautiful.”

— Helen Keller

183. “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than to outrun exposer. the fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

— Helen Keller

184. “This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.”

— Helen Keller

185. “A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.”

— Helen Keller

186. “Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach.”

— Helen Keller

187. “The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.”

— Helen Keller

188. “The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.”

— Helen Keller

189. “My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.”

— Helen Keller

190. “The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that ‘W-A-T-E-R’ meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.”

— Helen Keller

191. “Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.”

— Helen Keller

192. “I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.”

— Helen Keller

193. “It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.”

— Helen Keller

194. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”

— Helen Keller

195. “The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.”

— Helen Keller

196. “Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!”

— Helen Keller

197. “The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”

— Helen Keller

198. “The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.”

— Helen Keller

199. “No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.”

— Helen Keller

200. “If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.”

— Helen Keller