Helen Keller

“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”

“I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.”

“It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky, Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.” [at age 74, on flight around the world, news reports of 5 February 1955]

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.”

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

“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 undefeatable.”

“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.”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret to the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

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

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”

“The most beautiful world is always entered through the imagination. If you wish to be something you are not…you shut your eyes, and for one dreamy moment you are that which you long to be.” 

“The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but we often look so long at the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.”