What would you do if you couldn’t see or hear? For Helen Keller, this was her reality. Despite being born into a wealthy family, she lost both her sight and hearing at 19 months old. Determined to not let her disability define her, Keller became one of the most well-known activists for people with disabilities. She championed for education and opportunities for all, and is recognized as one of the most influential people of the 20th century. Learn more about Keller’s inspiring story in this quotes compilation.
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Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing. — Helen Keller
Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart. — Helen Keller
The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. — Helen Keller
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend. — Helen Keller
Rebuffed, but always persevering; self–reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals. — Helen Keller
Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world. — 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
Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows — 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
Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. — Helen Keller
Look the world straight in the eye. — Helen Keller
I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it. — Helen Keller
World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated. — Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. — Helen Keller
The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination. — Helen Keller
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. — Helen Keller
What were Helen Keller’s accomplishments?
Helen Keller’s personal accomplishment was developing skills never previously approached by any similarly disabled person. She also lectured on behalf of the American Foundation for the Blind, for which she later established a $2 million endowment fund. She then cofounded the American Civil Liberties Union with American civil rights activist Roger Nash Baldwin and others in 1920. Source
Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world. — Helen Keller
Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you… — Helen Keller
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud. — 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
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring. — Helen Keller
Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. — Helen Keller
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
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world––the company of those who have known suffering. — 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
This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks. — 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 it allotted length. — 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
I don’t want to live in a hand–me–down world of others’ experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me. — Helen Keller
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good. — Helen Keller
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap–heap. — Helen Keller
HELLEN KELLER QUOTES ON HAPPINESS
Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances. — Helen Keller
Your success and happiness lie in you. — Helen Keller
I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective. — Helen Keller
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. — Helen Keller
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there. — 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
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves. — Helen Keller
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. — Helen Keller
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens. — Helen Keller
HELLEN KELLER QUOTES ON LIFE
We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others. — Helen Keller
Life is either a great adventure or nothing. — Helen Keller
Life is a daring adventure or nothing. — Helen Keller
There’s only one story, the story of your life. — Helen Keller
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. — Helen Keller
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. — Helen Keller
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. — Helen Keller
Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all. — Helen Keller
I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life. — Helen Keller
One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold. — Helen Keller
What books did Helen Keller write?
Helen Keller wrote about her life in several books, including The Story of My Life, Optimism, The World I Live In, My Religion, Helen Keller’s Journal, and The Open Door
There is joy in self–forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others’ ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness. — Helen Keller
What was Helen Keller’s relationship with Anne Sullivan?
Anne Sullivan became governess to six-year-old Helen Keller in March 1887.
In 1888 the two began spending periods at the Perkins Institution, and Sullivan subsequently accompanied Keller to the Wright-Humason School in New York City, the Cambridge School for Young Ladies, and Radcliffe College.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. — Helen Keller
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
I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come. — Helen Keller
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day–lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. — Helen Keller
I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness. — Helen Keller
Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places. — Helen Keller
The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by. — Helen Keller
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower–the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. — Helen Keller
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world. — Helen Keller
I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love. — Helen Keller
The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! — Helen Keller
HELLEN KELLER QUOTES ABOUT FEELINGS
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. — Helen Keller
Love? Why … it is what everybody feels for everybody else. — Helen Keller
If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn’t feel so all alone. — Helen Keller
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. — Helen Keller
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. — Helen Keller
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn’t make life any sweeter or happier, does it? — Helen Keller
Why is Helen Keller important?
Helen Keller was an author, activist, and educator whose lifetime of public advocacy for many communities and causes had lasting global impact.
Keller, who became blind and deaf as a result of a childhood illness, learned to communicate with hearing people by having signals pressed into her palm, reading lips by way of touch, reading and writing Braille, and eventually speaking audibly.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. — Helen Keller
While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities. — Helen Keller
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side–even if only that it is not worse…and it can always be worse — Helen Keller
Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again. — Helen Keller
I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me. — Helen Keller
Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams. — Helen Keller
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel. — Helen Keller
It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more. — Helen Keller
Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them. — Helen Keller
A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart–sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks. — Helen Keller
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind. — Helen Keller
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. — Helen Keller
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see. — Helen Keller
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity. — Helen Keller
If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose. — Helen Keller
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them. — Helen Keller
We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses. — Helen Keller
HELLEN KELLER QUOTES ON SIGHT
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. — Helen Keller
It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision. — Helen Keller
What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision. — Helen Keller
The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision. — Helen Keller
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. — Helen Keller
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. — Helen Keller
The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision. — Helen Keller
