"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
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Quotes by Helen Keller
Helen Keller, an American author and disability rights advocate, became deafblind at 19 months old. With the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, she learned to communicate and read. Keller earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, becoming the first deafblind person in the U.S. to do so. She authored 14 books and numerous speeches, advocating for disability rights, women's suffrage, and labor rights. Her autobiography, "The Story of My Life," was adapted into the play and film "The Miracle Worker." Posthumously, Keller was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame and the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame.
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"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
Helen Keller"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."
Helen Keller"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."
Helen Keller"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."
Helen Keller"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
Helen Keller"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
Helen Keller"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
Helen Keller"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
Helen Keller"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
Helen Keller"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
Helen Keller"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
Helen Keller"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
Helen Keller"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller"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."
Helen Keller"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
Helen Keller"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
Helen Keller"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."
Helen Keller"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
Helen Keller"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
Helen Keller"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
Helen Keller"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears."
Helen Keller"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."
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"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"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."
Helen Keller"The highest result of education is tolerance."
Helen Keller"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."
Helen Keller"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."
Helen Keller"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