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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.

“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

All Quotes by Helen Keller

“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”

— Helen Keller

Great

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

— Helen Keller

Faith

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

— Helen Keller

Alone

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Nature

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Love

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Patience

“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.”

— Helen Keller

Sad

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

— Helen Keller

Age

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

Great

“True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

— Helen Keller

Happiness

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

— Helen Keller

Business

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”

— Helen Keller

Best

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Life

“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

“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