Do you believe in miracles? The story of Helen Keller’s life is no less than a miracle. A writer, political activist, lecturer, and disability rights activist… Helen Keller quotes proved that you can be limitless if you work hard and believe in yourself.
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia (Alabama). Her full name was Helen Adams Keller. Helen was born as a normal and healthy child but at the age of 19 months, she got sick and this period of time completely changed her life. Due to illness, she lost her eyesight and hearing power completely.
It was a tough time for Her parents Mr. Arthur H Keller and Mrs. Katherine Adam Keller. Poor Helen grew without connecting to the outer world except for sensing things by touch. This little girl was short-tempered, ill-mannered, and sometimes aggressive. She didn’t even let anyone comb her hair. We can understand how awful it would be when a person can not see and hear anything.
The entry of Anne Sullivan: Her teacher and a good friend
Her parents realized that they need professional help for Helen. After consulting the director of Perkins institute for the blind (in Boston), Mrs. Annie Sullivan was recommended to them. Annie Sullivan had been blind but fortunately, after surgery, she could get her eyesight back.
The biggest challenge for Mrs. Annie Sullivan was to communicate with the little girl because she was not only blind but also deaf. But Annie Sullivan was not ready to give up easily.
If you think about it you would come to know the real hero behind Helen Keller’s life is Annie Sullivan who believed in Helen, who believed in herself, and did not lose hope. She had a vision and she believed that it was possible. At that time, She didn’t know how but she believed that one day it would happen. Even Helen’s parents were ready to give up and compromise with the situation but Annie Sullivan was not.
Now the interesting part begins. Annie Sullivan used to give some object in Helen’s hands and make her recognize and feel it and write the letter of the words on her other hand. For example, if she was holding a doll, Mrs. Annie Sullivan used to write DOLL on her hand. Helen used to repeat the same writing letters on her teacher’s hand.
Finally, Helen was understanding the things
One day Mrs. Annie Sullivan put Helen’s hand in the water coming from a hand pump and spelled the words on her hand W-A-T-E-R, and it was the turning point of Helen’s life. Helen finally understood and started recognizing objects and other things. It was also the happiest day of Mr. Annie Sullivan’s life because it was like getting the fruit of her hard work.
Helen was a brilliant student and a fast learner. Soon she started to read with the help of braille books. By the age of 10, she was not only able to read braille books but also could use a typewriter which is itself an incredible achievement for Helen as well as for Annie Sullivan. It’s a perfect example that your obstacles can never stop you from achieving what you want. The only thing you keep in mind is to trust the process and believe in yourself.
Now, Helen went a step ahead and started learning how to speak from Mrs. Sarah fuller. As Halen could not hear or see, she started recognizing the sound vibrations and lips movement placing her fingers on the speaker’s lips and throat. Slowly she got good command of this skill as well.
Her education…
At the age of 16, Helen went for higher education at Radcliffe college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and earned her degree with honors in bachelor of art. Annie Sullivan helped her in her study at her college as well by interpreting all the lectures and assignments. Helen was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor’s degree and she did not stop there.
Contribution to the society
After her education, she decided to serve so she worked for the American Foundation for the blind till 1968. During this, she also traveled to about 35 countries. Helen was a well-known personality at that time and she campaigned for world peace, labor rights, women’s suffrage, and people with disabilities.
Helen was also great at writing. She has written 14 books and hundreds of speeches and essays. Helen Keller also shared her experience with her teacher Annie Sullivan and the challenges of her life in her autobiography “The story of my life”. She also showed her interest in politics and joined The Socialist party of America.
In 1968, at the age of 87, Helen said goodbye to this world and left behind her beautiful thoughts, courage not to give up, and extraordinary achievements.
The true inspiration for everyone
Helen is a true inspiration for everyone and proved that obstacles can not stop you to achieve success. Not only did she overcome all the obstacles in her life but also used to inspire others with her inspirational quotes. Here is a collection of powerful quotes by Helen Keller that would definitely motivate you if you think about problems and obstacles that stop you from being the best version of yourself.
Helen Keller Quotes
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. ~Helen Keller
Avoiding danger is no safer in the longer run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. ~Helen Keller
BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU HAVE WHILE WORKING FOR WHAT YOU WANT ~Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope. ~Helen Keller
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~Helen Keller
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend ~Helen Keller
Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth, Share in the tree-top’s joyance, and conceive of sunshine and wide air and winged things, By sympathy of nature, so do I. ~Helen Keller
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. ~Helen Keller
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. ~Helen Keller
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with it’s joy clears and sharpens the vision. ~Helen Keller
One cannot consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ~Helen Keller
Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart. ~Helen Keller
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Helen Keller
Happiness is a state of Mind, and depends very little on Outward Circumstance ~Helen Keller
One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier. ~Helen Keller
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. ~Helen Keller
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. ~Helen Keller
The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction. ~Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. ~Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much. ~Helen Keller
So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain. ~Helen Keller
What I’m looking for is not out there. It is in me. ~Helen Keller
Here is list of 100 Helen Keller Quotes for life
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ~ Helen Keller
A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn. ~Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. ~Helen Keller
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” ~Helen Keller
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” ~Helen Keller
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ~Helen Keller
“The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ~Helen Keller
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ~Helen Keller
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ~Helen Keller
“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.” ~Helen Keller
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ~Helen Keller
“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.” ~Helen Keller
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” ~Helen Keller
“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.” ~Helen Keller
Inspiring Helen Keller Quotes
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~Helen Keller
“I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.” ~Helen Keller
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” ~Helen Keller
“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.” ~Helen Keller
“What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~Helen Keller
“I do not want the peace that passed understanding. I want the understanding which brength peace.” ~Helen Keller
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ~Helen Keller
“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.” ~Helen Keller
Short Quotes by Helen Keller
“To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” ~Helen Keller
“The highest result of education is tolerance.” ~Helen Keller
“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.” ~Helen Keller
“Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.” ~Helen Keller
“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.” ~Helen Keller
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” ~Helen Keller
“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.” ~Helen Keller
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” ~Helen Keller
“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” ~Helen Keller
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.” ~Helen Keller
“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.” ~Helen Keller
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land.” ~Helen Keller
“The highest result of education is tolerance.” ~Helen Keller
“True happiness is not made in getting something. It’s in doing something.” ~Helen Keller
“It’s a terrible thing to see and have no vision.” ~Helen Keller
“The best way out is always through.” ~Helen Keller
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” ~Helen Keller
“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.” ~Helen Keller
“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.” ~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.” ~Helen Keller
“The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings.” ~Helen Keller
“The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.” ~Helen Keller
“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.” ~Helen Keller
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” ~Helen Keller
“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.” ~Helen Keller
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” ~Helen Keller
“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.” ~Helen Keller
“The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.” ~Helen Keller
“The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.” ~Helen Keller
“Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~Helen Keller
“The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” ~Helen Keller
“I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home… I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.” ~Helen Keller
“The highest result of education is tolerance.” ~Helen Keller
“Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.” ~Helen Keller
“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.” ~Helen Keller
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” ~Helen Keller
“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.” ~Helen Keller
Best Relationship Quotes by Helen Keller
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” ~Helen Keller
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ~Helen Keller
“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.” ~Helen Keller
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” ~Helen Keller
“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.” ~Helen Keller
“The greatest tragedy in life is not to have lost your sight, but to have lost your vision.” ~Helen Keller
“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.” ~Helen Keller
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.”
“The highest result of education is tolerance.” ~Helen Keller
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” ~Helen Keller
“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.” ~Helen Keller
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ~Helen Keller
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ~Helen Keller
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” ~Helen Keller
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ~Helen Keller
“The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ~Helen Keller
“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.” ~Helen Keller
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ~Helen Keller
“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.” ~Helen Keller
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” ~Helen Keller
“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.” ~Helen Keller
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~Helen Keller
“I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.” ~Helen Keller
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” ~Helen Keller
“What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~Helen Keller
“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” ~Helen Keller
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” ~Helen Keller
“Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.” ~Helen Keller
“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.” ~Helen Keller
