Helen Keller Quotes - Page 2

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

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller

Happiness, Purpose, True Happiness, True

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

Life, Inspirational, Future, Heart, Past

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

Happiness, Darkness, Silence, Learn, May

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. - Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. Helen Keller

Life, Business, Lived, Others, Exciting

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

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

Sight, Senses, Most, Delightful, Must

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

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

Brainy, Soar, Never, Consent, Creep

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

Happiness, Without, Right, Consume

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller

Fear, Run, Long, Bold, Danger, Caught

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

Great, Men, More, Fortunate, Majority

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

Stars, New, Human Spirit, Spirit, Land

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

Sweet, I Am, Book, Me, Friends, Talk

Knowledge is love and light and vision. - Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller

Love, Light, Knowledge, Vision

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

Wise, World, Enemy, Worst, Never, Our

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

Life, Best, Know, Never, Miracle, Our

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

World, Eagle, Skill, Hand, Own, Arrow

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

Great, Travel, Door, Equal, Desire, Go

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

Death, Me, You, Know, See, Difference

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

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, Ancestors, Slave, Who, Had, His

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

Happiness, Purpose, True Happiness, True

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

God, Mountains, Religion, Sky, Me, Climb

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

Nothing, Everything, Hard, Interest, Who

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, Effort, Balance, Mind, Brain, Same

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. Helen Keller

People, Think, Reach, Always, Pleasant

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. Helen Keller

You, Smell, Years, Lived, Miles, Wizard

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

Saying, Done, Cannot, Themselves, Were

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