Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Helen Keller Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
2
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
3
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
4
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
5
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
6
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.
7
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
8
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
9
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
10
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.
11
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
12
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
13
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
14
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
15
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
16
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.
17
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
18
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
19
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
20
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
21
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
22
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
23
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.
24
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
25
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
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True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
28
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
29
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.
30
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.
31
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.
32
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.
33
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
34
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.
35
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
36
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
37
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
38
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
39
It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
40
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
