"Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there."
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
Quote collection
Helen Keller quotes (page 4 of 23)
454 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun."
"Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams."
"The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination."
"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."
"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."
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
"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."
"We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others."
"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."
"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."
"There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness."
"True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart"
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
"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."
"Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people."
"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me."
"When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people."
"Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one."
"So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied."