Top 400 Helen Keller Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

153. “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

156. “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

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

— Helen Keller

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

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

162. “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

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

165. “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

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

168. “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

169. “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

170. “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

171. “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

172. “Is love the sweetness of flowers?”

— Helen Keller

173. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

175. “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

176. “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

177. “I have found life so beautiful.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

179. “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

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

183. “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

184. “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

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

187. “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

188. “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

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

196. “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

197. “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

198. “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

199. “Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.”

— Helen Keller

200. “Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.”

— Helen Keller