Helen Keller

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.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

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.

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.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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

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.

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.

Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

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.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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.

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

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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