Helen Keller — People

A dark bowl with gold-mended cracks holds a small green seedling on crumpled linen. — Original artwork

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

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.

Helen Keller

An open book with raised dot patterns rests beside pink cloth, flowers and a smooth stone. — Original artwork

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

Helen Keller

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Helen Keller

A tiny paper aeroplane rests on the crest of a glossy blue and white wave-shaped sculpture. — Original artwork

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Helen Keller

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. On flying around the world

Helen Keller

A sunflower stands in a slender glass vase beside a small golden light, casting a shadow across a pale surface. — Original artwork

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

A small wooden door standing open on blue felt, with amber light falling across a row of teacups. — Original artwork

… literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Keller

... literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The Story of My Life

Helen Keller

Many scholars forget … that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. … very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit.

Helen Keller

… my soul stood erect, exultant, envisioning a new world where the light of justice for every individual will be unclouded.

Helen Keller

... my soul stood erect, exultant, envisioning a new world where the light of justice for every individual will be unclouded. letter to former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1948)

Helen Keller

One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy.

Helen Keller

A snapped thin blue thread lies beside a braided blue cord holding up a net with a slice of watermelon, on a pale grey background. — Original artwork

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

Helen Keller