Helen Keller Top 10 Quotes


10

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

9

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Helen Keller (Midstream: My Later Life, 1937)

8

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Helen Keller (The Simplest Way to be Happy, 1933)

7

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. A sunset, a mountain bathed in moonlight, the ocean in calm and in storm - we see these, love their beauty, hold the vision to our hearts. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller (The Open Door, 1957)

6

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.

Helen Keller (The Story of My Life, 1903)

5

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

4

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

Helen Keller (The Story of My Life, 1903)

3

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 (The Open Door, 1957)

2

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 (We Bereaved, 1929)

1

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller (The Story of My Life, 1903)

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Helen Keller Biography

Born: June 27, 1880
Died: June 1, 1968

Helen Keller was an American author, activist and educator. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Notable Works

The Story of My Life (1903)
My Religion
(1927)
The Open Door (1957)
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