Helen Keller

My friends have been my solace, my inspiration, and my support.

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.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

The chief delight of the senses is in the perception of beauty.

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

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The spirit finds its glow in answering for a challenge.

I can see, and that is why I can be so happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

The welfare of the workers is the first consideration.

You can't be a little bit pregnant.

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.

I am not afraid to die, for I have lived.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

I do not want to be a burden on anyone.

It is not the eye that sees, but the heart that feels.

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

I am sure that the true way to make a life happy is to make it useful.