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Helen Keller

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Helen Keller (1880–1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, and political activist who, despite being deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, became the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her life story — and her partnership with teacher Anne Sullivan — became a global symbol of the power of perseverance.

“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”

— Helen Keller

Age

All Quotes by Helen Keller

“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”

— Helen Keller

Patience

“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.”

— Helen Keller

Experience

“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.”

— Helen Keller

Future

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

— Helen Keller

Happiness

“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”

— Helen Keller

Teacher

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”

— Helen Keller

Alone

“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

Happiness

“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

Great

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

— Helen Keller

Love

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

— Helen Keller

Education

“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

Best

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

— Helen Keller

Intelligence

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

Great

“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”

— Helen Keller

Happiness

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”

— Helen Keller

Faith

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”

— Helen Keller

Friendship

“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

— Helen Keller

Love

“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”

— Helen Keller

Work

“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

Great

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”

— Helen Keller

Nature