Helen Keller - Quotes ( American author and educator who was blind and deaf)

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Helen Keller

 

American author and educator who was blind and deaf,

1880-1968

 

When one door of happiness 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.

 

 

 

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that

we love deeply becomes a part of us.

 

 

 

When one door of happiness closes, another opens.

 

 

 

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than

outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as

the bold.

 

 

 

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also

full of the overcoming of it.

 

 

 

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

 

 

 

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he

keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

 

 

 

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see

the shadow.

 

 

 

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be

done, it was done.

 

 

 

When we do the best that we can, we never know what

miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of

another.

 

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world

shall emerge into the light.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid

imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer,

and the large mind transcend.

 

 

 

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

 

 

 

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep

our faces toward change and behave like free spirits

in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

 

 

 

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to

be understood.

 

 

 

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only

through experiences of trial and suffering can the

soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition

inspired and success achieved.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot

be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the

heart.

 

 

 

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we

can never do anything wise in this world.

 

 

 

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than

walking alone in the light.

 

 

 

True happiness...is not attained through

self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy

purpose.

 

 

 

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free

spirits in the presence of fate is strength

undefeatable.

 

 

 

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract

but not for the concrete.

 

 

 

There is no better way to thank God for your sight

than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

 

 

 

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty

shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the

tiny pushes of each honest worker.

 

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of

all.

 

 

 

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who

has sight, but has no vision.

 

 

 

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 joy in overcoming

obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain

something beautiful is ever lost.

 

 

 

The highest result of education is tolerance.

 

 

 

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars

or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven

to the human spirit.

 

 

 

One can never consent to creep when one feels an

impulse to soar.

 

 

 

No one has a right to consume happiness without

producing it.

 

 

 

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world

straight in the eye.

 

 

 

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge --

broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from

false, and lofty things from low.

 

 

 

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up

with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all

the while.

 

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is

my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though

they were great and noble. The world is moved along

not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also

by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest

worker.

 

 

 

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each

person could be blind and deaf for a few days during

his early adult life. Darkness would make him

appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of

sound.

 

 

 

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,

and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be

content.

 

 

 

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

 

 

 

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

 

American author and educator who was blind and deaf,

1880-1968

 

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