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Helen Keller

Read through the most famous quotes from Helen Keller




One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.


— Helen Keller


#duty #life

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


— Helen Keller


#religion

Your success and happiness lie in you.


— Helen Keller


#inspirational-quotes #success #inspirational

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.


— Helen Keller


#women-s-rights #inspirational

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


#life

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.


— Helen Keller


#life

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


— Helen Keller


#beauty

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.


— Helen Keller


#love #self-forgetfulness #love

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.


— Helen Keller


#poetry #education

La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n'est rien.


— Helen Keller


#inspiration #vie #inspirational






About Helen Keller

Helen Keller Quotes




Did you know about Helen Keller?

Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U. She was a young woman from Scotland who had no experience with deaf or blind people. Keller wrote in the Akita Journal:


Later life
Keller suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and spent the last years of her life at her home.

A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World Helen Keller campaigned for women's suffrage labor rights socialism and other radical left causes. Helen Adams Keller (June 27 1880 – June 1 1968) was an American author political activist and lecturer. The story of how Keller's teacher Anne Sullivan broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language allowing the girl to blossom as Helen Keller learned to communicate has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.

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