Quotes by Helen Keller

Helen Keller (1880–1968) — Autorin · keine · USA

Helen Keller (1880–1968) war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Aktivistin, die trotz früh erworbener Taubblindheit internationale Bekanntheit erlangte. Sie setzte sich für die Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen ein, engagierte sich politisch in der Arbeiterbewegung und gründete ihren Glauben auf die Schriften des Mystikers Emanuel Swedenborg. Für Bibelleser veranschaulicht sie menschliche Willenskraft und gelebte Nächstenliebe, während ihre theologische Bindung an den Swedenborgianismus sowie ihre zeitweilige Befürwortung eugenischer Selektion kritisch zu betrachten sind.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Hope & Confidence, Meaning & Identity, Joy & Gratitude, Wisdom & Understanding, Courage & Strength, Service & Love of Neighbour, Love, Faith & Trust

Quotes by Helen Keller

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
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

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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

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

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
Helen Keller

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
Helen Keller

The most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched. Only the heart feels them.
Helen Keller

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
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

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
Helen Keller

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.
Helen Keller

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

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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 something that I can do.
Helen Keller

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Helen Keller

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
Helen Keller

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

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.
Helen Keller

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

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

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
Helen Keller

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

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

I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.
Helen Keller

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
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

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller

My friends have made the story of my life.
Helen Keller

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
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

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Sources: study.com, oup.com, swedenborgianstudies.org, commonwealmagazine.org

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