Top 81 Quotes About Life Helen Keller
#1. There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless and purposeless life. Helen Keller
Robin S. Sharma
#2. While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.
Helen Keller
#3. People don't like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller
#4. The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
#5. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
Helen Keller
#6. The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
#7. Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller
#8. The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
Helen Keller
#9. In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes on in the crowded city.
Helen Keller
#10. What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness.
Helen Keller
#11. I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.
Helen Keller
#12. Once I knew only darkness and stillness ... my life was without past or future ... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller
#13. While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.
Helen Keller
#14. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Helen Keller
#15. What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.
Helen Keller
#16. Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
Helen Keller
#17. Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.
Helen Keller
#18. Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#19. One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.
Helen Keller
#20. The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream
Helen Keller
#21. I have heard of the stars, of the play of light on the waves
these i would like to see
but far more than sight
i wish for my ears to be opened
the voice of a friend
the imaginations of mozart
life without these is darker by far
than blindness
Helen Keller
#22. Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
Napoleon Hill
#24. Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
Helen Keller
#25. My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do,
Helen Keller
#26. For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to
a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.
Helen Keller
#27. The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
#28. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
#29. What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?
Helen Keller
#30. If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!
Helen Keller
#31. For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
Helen Keller
#32. Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
Helen Keller
#33. I sat taller, to suppress my impatience. It was infuriating, this waiting. I was thirty-seven years old. And like a child, an infant, really, I was at the mercy of others. Hour after hour of my life was spent waiting.
Rosie Sultan
#34. Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
Helen Keller
#35. When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.
Helen Keller
#36. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.
Helen Keller
#37. Our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
Helen Keller
#38. Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important ... The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
Helen Keller
#39. I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, & every war has to me the horror od a family feud. I look upon the true patriotism as the brotherhood of man & the service to of all to all. The only fighting that saves is the one that helps the world toward liberty, justice & an abundant life for all.
Helen Keller
#40. A tangible object passes complete into my brain with the warmth of life upon it, and occupies the same place that it does in space; for, without egotism, the mind is as large as the universe.
Helen Keller
#41. Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
Helen Keller
#42. I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#43. Friends create the world anew each day.
Without their loving care, courage would not
suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
Helen Keller
#44. It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
Helen Keller
#45. Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen Keller
#46. 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.
Helen Keller
#47. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
#48. What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
Helen Keller
#49. There's only one story, the story of your life.
Helen Keller
#50. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
Helen Keller
#51. Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
Helen Keller
#52. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
#53. My friends have made the story of my life.
Helen Keller
#54. Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
#56. The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Helen Keller
#57. It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me ... if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me ...
Helen Keller
#58. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
Helen Keller
#59. Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
Helen Keller
#60. The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Helen Keller
#61. Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
Helen Keller
#62. I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!
Helen Keller
#63. One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates ...
Helen Keller
#64. I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
Helen Keller
#65. The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
Helen Keller
#66. A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller
#67. The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.
Helen Keller
#69. During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."
Helen Keller
#70. A woman named Helen Keller fought her way through long, silent darkness.
Though she could not see or hear;
she taught us to look at and listen to each other.
Never waiting for life to get easier,
she gave others courage to face their challenges.
Barack Obama
#71. THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me
Helen Keller
#72. Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
Helen Keller
#73. What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
Helen Keller
#74. Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
#75. I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force ... this is my religion of optimism.
Helen Keller
#76. A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.
Helen Keller
#77. A bend in the road is not the end of the road ... Unless you fail to make the turn.
Helen Keller
#78. Helen Sustained many falls throughout her life. But as you can see, she steps right up and keeps on going. Falling to her is as natural as sneezing to us
Danielle Joseph
#79. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
Helen Keller
#80. Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
Helen Keller
#81. Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
Helen Keller
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