Helen Keller Quotes

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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.

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.

Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

Our favourite amusement during that winter was tobogganing. In places the shore of the lake rises abruptly from the water's edge. Down these steep slopes we used to coast. We would get on our toboggan, a boy would give us a shove, and off we went! Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank. What joy! What exhilarating madness! For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine!