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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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.

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

Helen Keller

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

Helen Keller

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Helen Keller

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

Helen Keller

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.

Helen Keller

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Helen Keller

Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom ...

Helen Keller

Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all t...

Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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 ...

Helen Keller

On Power: 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.

Helen Keller

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Helen Keller

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and 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

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Keller

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.

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

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

Helen Keller

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