About Helen Keller

Deafblind author, lecturer and advocate for people with disabilities. (1880-1968)

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More from Helen Keller

• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.The Open Door (1957)
• 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)

More quotes on failure and resilience

• If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.Elon Musk
• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.Maya Angelou
• Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.Maya Angelou
• We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
• Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.Oscar Wilde

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