Helen Keller Quotes - Page 2

American - Author June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968

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

Inspirational, My Life

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. - Helen Keller

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. Helen Keller

World, All The World, Also

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. Helen Keller

Gift, Mind, Bicycle

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. Helen Keller

Half, Richness, Rewarding

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. Helen Keller

Wise, Never, World

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

Chief, Great, Small

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done. - Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done. Helen Keller

Themselves, Were, Among

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

Happiness, Wonders, May

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller

Here, Awkwardness, Utopia

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

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

Producing, Happiness, Right

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. Helen Keller

Through, True Happiness

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Helen Keller

New, Discovered, Spirit

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. Helen Keller

King, Slave, His

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

Desire, Door, Goal

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world. Helen Keller

Which, Manmade, Happy

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. Helen Keller

Winged, Feather, Wounded

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

Never, Best, Wrought

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing. - Helen Keller

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing. Helen Keller

Interest, Nothing, Hard

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. Helen Keller

Compare, More, Comparing

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. Helen Keller

Moved, Also, Pushes

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. Helen Keller

Bible, We Cannot, Going

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

Peace, Which, Want

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. - Helen Keller

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. Helen Keller

Vision, See, Terrible Thing

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. Helen Keller

Nature, Needles, Luxurious

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. - Helen Keller

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. Helen Keller

Most, Senses, Sight

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

May, Remedy, Them

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