Helen Keller was an American author, lecturer, political activist,and disability rights activist.She herself was a physically disabled person who lost her eyesight and hearing ability at the age of nineteen months. She learned all forms of education from a specialist and a mainstream school. She later graduated from Harvard University college, Radcliffe College.
Helen was born on 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was a celebrated writer who authored fourteen books and many other speeches and essays. As a human rights activist, Hellen participated and campaigned for those with disabilities, women’s rights, rights for labourers, and world peace. She was also a politically known figure and was a part of the NAACP and American Civil Liberties Union.
Here are some beautiful and strong quotes by Helen Keller that define the vision of life,happiness, and success. Hellen has inspired the world with her prolific writings and extraordinary perspective towards life. She is an icon worth looking up to.
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Helen Keller Quotes
- When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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- The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
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- He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
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- Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.
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- People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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- Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
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- No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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- What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
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- Meanwhile the desire to express myself grew. The few signs I used became less and less adequate, and my failures to make myself understood were invariably followed by outbursts of passion.
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- All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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- The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.
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- Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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- When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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- You cannot touch love but you can feel the sweetness it pours into everything.
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- One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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- Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
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- No one has the right to consume happiness without producing it.
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- 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.
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- Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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- What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
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- If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
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- While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.
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- We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
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- The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
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- What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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- Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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- The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.
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- 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.
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Helen Keller quotes about love and happiness
- Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
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- A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
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- We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
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- I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.
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- It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
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- Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
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- People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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- What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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- You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
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- Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first.
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- The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
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- Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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- Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
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- As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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- When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
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More Helen Keller quotes to inspire you
- The highest result of education is tolerance.
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- Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope.
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- Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
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- Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
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- I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.
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- Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
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- The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
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- No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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- I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet
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- All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
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- Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
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- What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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- Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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- Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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- Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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- Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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- We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
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Conclusion
Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968. She suffered a series of severe strokes and had to remain at home for her last seven years of life.She was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She spent her later life raising funds for disabled people,especially the blinds. Her life and her achievements are a great inspiration to the world.Being a blind and deaf person, she has achieved a lot that most people with all forms of abilities can not.She is admired and will be admired by generations to come.
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