Quotes by Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

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.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

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

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.

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.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.