Helen Keller Quotes

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Helen Keller

Profession : Author

Birth : June 27, 1880

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Helen Keller

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

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

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

Helen Keller

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

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

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Helen Keller

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

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

Helen Keller

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.

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Keller

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Helen Keller

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

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