Quotes By Author: Helen Keller

“La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n’est rien.”

“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 invicible host against difficulties.”

“Your success and happiness lie in you.”

“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”

“I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”

“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.”

“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

“Relationships are like Rome — difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt… that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.”

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

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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