Helen Keller

Author, Activist

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

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

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"Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there."

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"When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun."

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"Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams."

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"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."

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"When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good."

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"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."

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"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."

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"There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness."

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"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 the something that I can do."

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"Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people."

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"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me."

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"When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people."

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