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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

“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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“Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.”

— Helen Keller

Science

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

— Helen Keller

Happiness

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

— Helen Keller

Happiness

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

— Helen Keller

Intelligence

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Teacher

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

— Helen Keller

Happiness

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Life

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

— Helen Keller

Patience

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

— 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

“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

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Alone

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”

— Helen Keller

Peace

“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

“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

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