She was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near-complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and was outspoken in her opposition to the war.
A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Wobblies, she campaigned for women’s suffrage, workers’ rights, and socialism.
(1880 – 1968)
– Helen Keller Quotes –
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
~ Helen Keller
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
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
~ Helen Keller
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
~ Helen Keller
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
~ Helen Keller
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
~ Helen Keller
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.
~ Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
~ Helen Keller
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
~ 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
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
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
~ Helen Keller
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
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
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
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller
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
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
~ Helen Keller
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
~ Helen Keller
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
~ Helen Keller
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
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
~ Helen Keller
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
~ Helen Keller
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
~ Helen Keller
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
~ Helen Keller
