"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...
The day is ours, and what the day has shown.
More Helen Keller quotes
"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purp...
"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 can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
"Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
"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.
"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
"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.
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger ...
"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 fel...
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.