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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.

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

— Helen Keller

Happiness

All Quotes by Helen Keller

“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

Good

“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”

— Helen Keller

Love

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

— Helen Keller

Patience

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

— Helen Keller

Love

“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

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

— Helen Keller

Education

“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

Experience

“Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.”

— Helen Keller

Alone

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Faith

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

— Helen Keller

Alone

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

— Helen Keller

Love

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

— Helen Keller

Nature

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

— Helen Keller

Age

“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

Experience

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

— Helen Keller

Happiness

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

Great

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

— Helen Keller

Happiness

“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

“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

Great