Helen Keller Quotes

American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)

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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American writer and social activist; an illness (possibly scarlet fever or meningitis) at the age of 19 months left her deaf and blind.

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Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.

وأكثر مايثير الحنق والغيظ أن تبدو ذاكرتك وقد نما لها جناحان لتطير بهما بعيدا فى ذات اللحظة التى تكون فيها فى أشد الحاجة اليها , فالحقائق التى تتعلمها وتستذكرها بالجهد والجهيد غالبا ماتقترف فى حقك جريمة الخيانة حينما تهرب منك فى الوقت الذى تكون فى حاجة ماسة اليها
فقد تجد نفسك فى امتحان أمام السؤال التالى : اكتب مقالا مختصرا عن هس وانجازاتة .باللعجب من (هس ) هذا ؟ وماهى انجازاتة ؟

I realized that the wonder is not that conditions are so bad, but that humanity has advanced so far in spite of them. & now I am in the fight to change things. I may be a dreamer, but dreamers are necessary to make facts!

Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

I am only one, but I am still 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.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends.

Perhaps my sun shines not as yours. The colours that glorify my world, the blue of the sky, the green of the fields, may not correspond exactly with those you delight in; but the are none the less colour to me.

All that we love deeply becomes part of us.

Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging moods of the human mind come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? Other feet have traveled that road before me, and I know the desert leads to god as surely as the green, refreshing fields, and orchards.

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.