Helen Keller

Helen Keller

Author, Activist

Helen Keller was a pioneering author and activist who overcame deafness and blindness to advocate for education and social justice.

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Born
June 27, 1880
Died
June 1, 1968
Quotes
454
Rank
#97

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"The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand; but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure."

Children Heart Sunshine
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"More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free."

Book Fall Hands
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"Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed."

Beauty Art Inspiration
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"For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire."

Running Fall Struggle
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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us."

Gratitude Disappointment Doors
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"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."

Light Silence Darkness
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"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"

Heart Positive Thinking Sunshine
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"The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things."

Born Capacity Humans
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"We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good."

Crush Trials Force
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"We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!"

Soul Cry Creeps
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"People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower."

Flower Ideas People
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"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."

Pain Believe Helping Others
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"What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision."

Inspiring Graduation Sight
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"I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another."

Men Political Shooting
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"Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt."

Life Prayer Hate
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"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."

Writing Discovery Hands
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"What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision."

Sight Vision Born
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"The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed."

Ideas Brotherhood Dawn
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