Alone we can do so little;
by Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
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Sayings by Helen Keller
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller 
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit
of obedience to the laws of life.
- Helen Keller
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Helen Keller
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
The highest thinkers of the ages,
the seers of the tribes and the nations,
have been optimists.
- Helen Keller
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
- 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
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
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.
- Helen Keller
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
he fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world
shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
Optimism is the harmony between man's spirit
and of God pronouncing His works good.
- Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass
is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors,
and no slave who has not had a king among his.
- Helen Keller
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding.
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller
Alone Sayings
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
You have not been abandoned.
You are never alone, except by your own choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
I alone am the MASTER of my ship of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
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