Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller
“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”
topics: Leadership
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
topics: Life
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
topics: Life
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
topics: Life
“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of envy.”
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
topics: Love
“I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.”
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
topics: Miracles
“The million little things that drop into your hands - the small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse and goes unchanging along His silent way.”
“I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.”
topics: Patience
“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.”
topics: Patience
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”
“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”
“Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.”
topics: Patience
“I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.”
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
topics: Peace
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”
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Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.
A prolific author, Keller was well traveled and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She campaigned for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and socialism, as well as many other progressive causes.
Keller devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Helen Keller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest two civilian honors.