59 Helen Keller Quotes on Life & Happiness (VISION)

Top 10 Famous Helen Keller Quotes

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Life is either a daring **adventure** or nothing at all.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. — When one door of **happiness** closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. — **Optimism** is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without **hope** and **confidence**.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

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.”
Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. (**more friendship quotes here**)

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision. — The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no **vision**.

27 Helen Keller Quotes to Propel You to Live a Happy Life

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

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.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective. — I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a **philosophy** and an objective.

What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. (**more love quotes here**)

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Knowledge is love and light and vision. — **Knowledge** is love and light and **vision**.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

The highest result of education is tolerance. — The highest result of **education** is tolerance.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope.

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. — I do not want the **peace** that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth **peace**.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. — When we do the best we can, we never know what **miracle** is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction. — The bulk of the world’s **knowledge** is an imaginary construction.

22 Motivational Helen Keller Quotes for Deeper Living

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
Helen Keller

You cannot touch love but you can feel the sweetness it pours into everything.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

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.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable. — To keep our faces toward **change**, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

It is said that success is happiness. I think goodwill and service to all men are the true kind of happiness.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. — **True education** combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Helen Keller Short Biography

Born on 27 June 1880, Helen Keller is a prominent American author, political activist, and lecturer.

She was the first graduate to overcome both the adversity of being blind and deaf to earn her Bachelor of Arts degree at Radcliffe College in 1904.

Helen Keller’s autobiography: The Story of My Life was published in 1903 which garnered Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan (and herself) national recognition.

In 1924, Keller joined the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) where she worked for the next 40 years.

The foundation provided Keller the opportunity of a platform to reach and advocate for the needs of the blind globally.

After WWII, Helen Keller toured the world and met with notable leaders such as Winston Churchill, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Golda Meir.

In 1948, General Douglas MacArthur invited her to Japan to speak to Japan’s blind and disabled population. 2 million Japanese came out to see her.

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