Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“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.”

“I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.”

“For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.”

“Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... 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.”

“It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…”

“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”

“Your success and happiness lie in you.”

“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”

“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.”

“Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging moods of the human mind come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? Other feet have traveled that road before me, and I know the desert leads to god as surely as the green, refreshing fields, and orchards.”

“The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of”

“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”

“Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

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

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”

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

“Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.”

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

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”

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

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”