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6/12/11

HELEN KELLER Quotes


"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships." ~Helen Keller

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." ~Helen Keller

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." ~Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness. Your success and happiness lie in you. The great enduring realities are love and service. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." ~Helen Keller

"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost." ~Helen Keller

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." ~Helen Keller

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." ~Helen Keller

"External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings." ~Helen Keller

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. When we do the best we can, we never know that miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." ~Helen Keller (1919-1985)

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light." ~Helen Keller

"Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness." ~Helen Keller

"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible." ~Helen Keller

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything ...I will not refuse to do something that I can do." ~Helen Keller

“I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.” ~Helen Keller

"I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light, but who see nothing in wood, sea or sky, nothing in the city streets, nothing in books. What a witless masquerade is this seeing! It were far better to sail for ever in the night of blindness, with sense and feeling and mind, than to be thus content with the mere act of seeing. They have the sunset, the morning skies, the purple distant hills, yet their souls voyage through this enchanted world with a barren state." ~Helen Keller, The World I Live

"It is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation." ~Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow." ~Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do." ~Helen Keller

"Knowledge is love and light and vision." ~Helen Keller

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all." ~Helen Keller 

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." ~Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature." ~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 is something like the clouds that were in the sky before the sun came out," she replied. Then in simpler words than these, which at that time I could not have understood, she explained: "You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play." -Helen Keller

"Make the most of every sense; glory in all of the pleasures and beauty which the world reveals to you." ~Helen Keller

"My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness."~Helen Keller~

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." ~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

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." ~Helen Keller

"Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful." ~Helen Keller

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." ~Helen Keller

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." ~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

"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived." ~Helen Keller

"That the sky is brighter than the earth means little, unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed." ~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

"The great, enduring realities are love of service." ~Helen Keller

"The highest result of   education is tolerance." ~Helen Keller 

"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

"There is only one thing worse than being blind and that is being able to see and yet have no vision." ~Helen Keller

"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug." ~Helen Keller

"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." ~Helen Keller

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." ~Helen Keller

"We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough." ~Helen Keller on Volunteerism

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." ~Helen Keller

"What I am looking for, it is not out there. It is in me." ~Helen Keller

"What is true happiness? It's not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." ~Helen Keller

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." ~Helen Keller

"When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow man, regardless of race, colour or creed, shall find the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brotherhood - 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." ~Helen Keller (1919-1985)

"When one door closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." ~HelenKeller

"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

"Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulty." ~Helen Keller.

Short Bio:
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
American writer and lecturer

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