Helen Keller was a pioneering and influential American author, political activist, and educator who was born in 1880 and died in 1968. She is best known for her inspiring life story, which has been widely told and celebrated. Keller was born in Alabama and lost her sight and hearing at the age of 19 months due to an illness. Despite these challenges, she went on to become the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor’s degree and became a leading advocate for the rights of people with disabilities.
Keller’s story is one of determination and perseverance. With the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, Keller learned to communicate and received an education. She became an author, writing several books and articles about her life and experiences. She also became an activist, speaking out against war and for the rights of people with disabilities. Keller’s story continues to inspire people around the world to overcome their challenges and achieve their goals.
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Helen Keller Quotes
- Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
- As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
- The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
- We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
- It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
- It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
- Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
- 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.
- No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
- People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
- Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
- Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
- Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
- Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
- Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
- So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
