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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.

“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

All Quotes by Helen Keller

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Business

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

Great

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Alone

“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

“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

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

— Helen Keller

Education

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Happiness

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Life

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

— Helen Keller

Peace

“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

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

— Helen Keller

Happiness

“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

“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