Quotes by Helen Keller

About Helen Keller:

Helen Adams Keller is now a museum and sponsors an annual "Helen Keller Day". Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of her birth.
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I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

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A beam from the everlasting sun of God. Rude and unresponsive are the stones; Yet in them divine things lie concealed; I hear their imprisoned chant:– “We are fragments of the universe, Chips of the rock whereon God laid the foundation of the wor...

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Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

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Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... 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.

Helen Keller

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' ...

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The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of...

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For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of...

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For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

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What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can ...

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Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom had a part in my education--noisy-throated frogs, katydids and crickets held in my hand until, forgetting their embarrassment, they trilled their reedy note, little downy chickens and wild...

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The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

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

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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.

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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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Author Bio

  • NameHelen Keller
  • DescriptionAmerican author, political activist, and lecturer
  • AliasesHelen Adams Keller
  • BornJune 27, 1880
  • DiedJune 1, 1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Orator; Essayist; Activist; Suffrage Activist (female)
  • AwardsPresidential Medal Of Freedom; National Women's Hall Of Fame