Quotes by
Helen Keller |
1880-1968 , American writer
American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, was made famous by Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, which was published in 1903 when Keller was 22.A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions.
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Quotations
| • | Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. 3 |
| • | One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. |
| • | Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. |
| • | If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought. |
| • | Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. |
| • | A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. |
| • | It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good. |
| • | Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life. |
| • | Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. |
| • | Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. |
| • | We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. |
| • | Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. |
| • | No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. |
| • | Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. |
| • | Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. |
| • | The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. |
| • | While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done. |
| • | People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. |
| • | The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. |
| • | Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within. |
| • | Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair. |
Quotes in Verse
| • | We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. |
