Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
The Open Door (1957)
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Helen Keller quotes
1880-1968 ยท Presidents and world leaders
Deafblind author, lecturer and advocate for people with disabilities.
9 quotes, 9 traced to where Keller said or wrote them.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Optimism (1903)
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched but just felt in the heart.
Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (1891)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller's Journal (1938)
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
Optimism (1903)
Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.
As quoted by Joseph P. Lash in Helen and Teacher (1980)
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1896)
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
The Simplest Way to Be Happy (1933)
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.
We Bereaved (1929)