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| Helen Keller Quotes |
Helen Keller Biougraphy
- Full Name : Helen Adams Keller
- Born : June 27, 1880 (Tuscumbia, Alabama, U.S)
- Dead : June 1, 1968 (Westport, Connecticut, U.S)
- Nationality : American
- Profession : Author, Educator and Disability Rights Advocate
- University : Radcliffe College, Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, Cambridge School for Young Ladies.
Facts About Helen Keller :
- Helen Keller lost her sight and her hearing after about of illness at the age of 19 months.
- She became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in the United States.
- Parents : Katherine Adams Keller and Arthur H. Keller; She has two daughters.
- During her life, Helen Keller wrote roughly 500 speeches and essays.
Helen Keller Quotes
1. “ Life is either a great adventure or nothing. ”
— Helen Keller
2. “ It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. ”
— Helen Keller
3. “ No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ”
— Helen Keller
4. “ Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. ”
— Helen Keller
5. “ Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. ”
— Helen Keller
6. “ It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. ”
— Helen Keller
7. “ Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. ”
— Helen Keller
8. “ 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
9. “ Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ”
— Helen Keller
10. “ One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ”
— Helen Keller
11. “ Knowledge is love and light and vision. ”
— Helen Keller
12. “ 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. ”
— Helen Keller
13. “ Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. ”
— Helen Keller
14. “ People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. ”
— Helen Keller
15. “ All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. ”
— Helen Keller
16. “ 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
17. “ Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. ”
— Helen Keller
18. “ Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ”
— Helen Keller
19. “ The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. ”
— Helen Keller
20. “ What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. ”
— Helen Keller
21. “ No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. ”
— Helen Keller
22. “ The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. ”
— Helen Keller
23. “ Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. ”
— Helen Keller
24. “ The highest result of education is tolerance. ”
— Helen Keller
25. “ The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ”
— Helen Keller
26. “ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ”
— Helen Keller
27. “ 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
28. “ the simplest way to be happy is to do good. ”
— Helen Keller
29. “ I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God. ”
— Helen Keller
30. “ Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. ”
— Helen Keller
31. “ The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! ”
— Helen Keller
32. “ We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. ”
— Helen Keller
33. “ The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction. ”
— Helen Keller
34. “ Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. ”
— Helen Keller
35. “ 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
36. “ My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. - Helen Keller
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. ”
— Helen Keller
37. “ 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. ”
— Helen Keller
38. “ 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. ”
— Helen Keller
39. “ Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either. ”
— Helen Keller
40. “ Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. ”
— Helen Keller
41. “ The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. ”
— Helen Keller
42. “ Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. ”
— Helen Keller
43. “ Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. ”
— Helen Keller
44. “ Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. ”
— Helen Keller
45. “ I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ”
— Helen Keller
46. “ People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. ”
— Helen Keller
47. “ As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ”
— Helen Keller
48. “ So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. ”
— Helen Keller
49. “ When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people. ”
— Helen Keller
50. “ To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. ”
— Helen Keller
51. “ We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others. ”
— Helen Keller
52. “ Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities. ”
— Helen Keller
53. “ Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ”
— Helen Keller
54. “ The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by. ”
— Helen Keller
55. “ Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ”
— Helen Keller
56. “ What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. ”
— Helen Keller
57. “ 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. ”
— Helen Keller
58. “ I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective. ”
— Helen Keller
59. “ It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. ”
— Helen Keller
60. “ Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ”
— Helen Keller