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“In the long sweep of life, what matters is not what you have lost but what you make with what remains.”
“Every flower of the field, every fibre of a plant, every particle of an insect, carries with it the impress of its Maker.”
“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
“To be sensitive is to be alive.”
“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“Light, give me light! Was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.”
“My teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything has a name.”
“That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free.”
“I have learned that being is more than seeming.”
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
“It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world.”
“In the deepest darkness, I have learned to look for stars.”
“What we love we shall grow to resemble.”
“Joy that cannot be felt is not joy at all.”
“In the long run, only what we have given of ourselves is truly ours.”
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks.”
“Then the doing of our work shall be no miracle, but we shall be the miracle.”
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