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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ...
by Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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Quotes by Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- 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
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass
is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- 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 harmony between man's spirit
and of God pronouncing His works good.
- Helen Keller
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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
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
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Helen Keller
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding.
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller
It is not possible for civilization to
flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong,
but it will advance its allotted length.
- Helen Keller
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
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
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- 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
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world
with a broader significance
than the narrow association of
members in a sect or creed.
- Helen Keller
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
- Helen Keller
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
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
It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller
People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
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
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them,
I have found myself, my work and my God.
- Helen Keller
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled
with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare,
social justice can never be attained.
- Helen Keller
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
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Strike against war, for without you
no battles can be fought!
- Helen Keller
While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- 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
All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
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
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
The highest thinkers of the ages,
the seers of the tribes and the nations,
have been optimists.
- Helen Keller
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
- Helen Keller
My share of the work may be limited,
but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
- Helen Keller
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- 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
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
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
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
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
- Helen Keller
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
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