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| Helen Adams Keller: born June 1880 died June 1968 was a renowned deaf-blind American author and lecturer |
Quotes by Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and comfort. Only through the experience of trial and suffering can a soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
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.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
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.
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.
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.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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.
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.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
I do not want the peace which passes understanding. I want the understanding which brings peace.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.
While the world is filled with suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
