124 Famous Quotes by Helen Keller
Helen Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer who was deaf and blind from a young age. Despite these challenges, Keller went on to become a leading figure in the disability rights movement and an inspiration to millions of people around the world. She was a gifted writer and speaker, and her advocacy work helped to raise awareness about the needs and rights of people with disabilities. Keller's courage, resilience, and determination in the face of adversity serve as a reminder of the power of the human spirit. (Helen Keller Biography).
Helen Keller Famous Quotes
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. (Meaning)
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. (Meaning)
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. (Meaning)
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. (Meaning)
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. (Meaning)
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. (Meaning)
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. (Meaning)
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. (Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. (Meaning)
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Meaning)
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. (Meaning)
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. (Meaning)
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. (Meaning)
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. (Meaning)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. (Meaning)
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. (Meaning)
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. (Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. (Meaning)
Life is either a great adventure or nothing. (Meaning)
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. (Meaning)
The highest result of education is tolerance. (Meaning)
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. (Meaning)
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. (Meaning)
Knowledge is love and light and vision. (Meaning)
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. (Meaning)
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. (Meaning)
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. (Meaning)
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. (Meaning)
College isn't the place to go for ideas. (Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
A lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. (Meaning)
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. (Meaning)
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. (Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. (Meaning)
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. (Meaning)
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. (Meaning)
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. (Meaning)
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing. (Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. (Meaning)
There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness. (Meaning)
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn. (Meaning)
We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others. (Meaning)
The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better. (Meaning)
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. (Meaning)
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. (Meaning)
The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination. (Meaning)
Life is either a great adventure or nothing. (Meaning)
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. (Meaning)
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. (Meaning)
So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied. (Meaning)
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. (Meaning)
Literature is my Utopia (Meaning)
Life is an adventure or nothing (Meaning)
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. (Meaning)
Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. (Meaning)
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. (Meaning)
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. (Meaning)
Life is a daring adventure or nothing. (Meaning)
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all. (Meaning)
Life is a daring adventure or nothing. (Meaning)
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all. (Meaning)
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people. (Meaning)
True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart (Meaning)
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. (Meaning)
Ideas without action are useless. (Meaning)
Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach (Meaning)
When one door of hapiness closes, another opens. (Meaning)
Your success & happiness lies in you. (Meaning)
My friends have made the story of my life. (Meaning)
Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits. (Meaning)
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
"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."
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me."
"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."
"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."
"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."
"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."
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
"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."
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision."
"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it."
"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."
"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."
"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."
"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming."
"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."
"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."
"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."
"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears."
"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."
"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."
"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."
"It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing."
"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
"Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful."
"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
"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."
"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
― Helen Keller Quotes
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