90 Inspirational Helen Keller Quotes on Happiness, Vision and Purpose

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

The silent worker is imagination which decrees reality out of chaos.

The desire to live is the basic principle that compels men & women to seek a more suitable environment, so that they may live better & more happily.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

It is so pleasant to learn about new things.

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.

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

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

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 best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

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.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

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 the one which has opened for us.

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

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.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

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.