Written by Pastor Jack Wellman21 Awesome Quotes from Helen Keller
Most people know of Helen Keller as the woman who was blind and deaf, but still learned to read and speak. This was true, but Helen Keller was more than just her disability. She was a strong Christian, an avid writer and speaker, and a radical social activist. Her words about overcoming obstacles and living with faith can guide us today. I hope you find encouragement from these quotes!
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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
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Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land."
- Helen Keller
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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
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Just as all things upon earth represent and image forth all the realities of another world, so the Bible is one mighty representative of the whole spiritual life of humanity.
- Helen Keller
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A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea.
- Helen Keller
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If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’
- Job 9:27
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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.
- Helen Keller
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
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I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.
- Helen Keller
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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
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller
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Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
- Helen Keller
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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
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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 something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
