Helen Keller
American author, disability-rights advocate, lecturer, and political activist whose life — deafblind from the age of nineteen months and yet author of fourteen books, graduate of Radcliffe, and lifelong campaigner for women's suffrage, labor rights, and pacifism — became one of the most-told stories of the twentieth century. Born in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, her partnership with teacher Anne Sullivan, beginning when Keller was six, became the foundation for her education and is the central narrative of The Miracle Worker. Her quote 'The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart' remains one of the most-shared sentiments in American letters. She died in 1968 in Easton, Connecticut.
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Quotes by Helen Keller
111 quotes“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.”
“Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose.”
“All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.”
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good.”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.”
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.”
“Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.”
“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.”
“Although the world is very full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.”
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