"Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it."
-Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
To keep our faces toward change and behave
like free spirits in the presence of fate
is strength and undefeatable."
-Helen Keller

"One can never consent to creep
when one feels an impulse to soar."
-Helen Keller

"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."
-Helen Keller

"Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature...
Life is either a daring adventure
or nothing."
-Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine
and you cannot see the shadow."
-Helen Keller

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

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

"We, the people, are not free.
Our democracy is but a name.
We vote? What does that mean?
We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee."
-Helen Keller

"There is no king
who has not had a slave
among his ancestors,
and no slave
who has not had
a king among his."
-Helen Keller

"Avoiding danger
is no safer in the long run
than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught
as often as the bold."
-Helen Keller

"That the sky is brighter
than the earth means little,
unless the earth itself
is appreciated and enjoyed."
-Helen Kelle

"To me a lush carpet of
pine needles or spongy grass
is more welcome than the
most luxurious Persian rug."
-Helen Keller

"Do not think of to-day's failures,
but of the success that may come to-morrow. . . .
Remember, no effort that we make to attain
something beautiful is ever lost.
Sometime, somewhere, somehow
we shall find that which we seek."
-Helen Keller

"The highest result of education is tolerance."
-Helen Keller

"Most people have a wrong idea
of what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
-Helen Keller

"The best way out is always through."
-Helen Keller

"In a thousand ways
they have turned my limitations
into beautiful privileges,
and enabled me to walk
serene and happy
in the shadow cast
by my deprivation."
-Helen Keller