Life Quotes Quote by Helen Keller — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”

“Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging moods of the human mind come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? Other feet have traveled that road before me, and I know the desert leads to god as surely as the green, refreshing fields, and orchards.”

“Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”

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

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.”

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

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.”

“I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.”

“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.”

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”

“Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.”