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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.

“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

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All Quotes by Helen Keller

“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”

— Helen Keller

Business

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

— Helen Keller

Teacher

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

— Helen Keller

Education

“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”

— Helen Keller

Happiness

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

— Helen Keller

Nature

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

— Helen Keller

Work

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Happiness

“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!”

— Helen Keller

War

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

— Helen Keller

Age

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

— Helen Keller

Alone

“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

“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

Death

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

Great

“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

“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

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

— Helen Keller

Life

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

— Helen Keller

Faith

“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

God

“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

Happiness