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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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“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― 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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“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door
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“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
― Helen Keller
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“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
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“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― Helen Keller
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“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
― Helen Keller
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“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
― Helen Keller
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“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
― Helen Keller
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“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”
― Helen Keller
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“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
― Helen Keller
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“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
― Helen Keller
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“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
― Helen Keller
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“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
― Helen Keller
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“The highest result of education is tolerance”
― Helen Keller
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“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everthing, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do.”
― Helen Keller
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“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content”
― Helen Keller
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“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.”
― Helen Keller
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“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
― Helen Keller
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“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
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“For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.”
― 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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“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”
― Helen Keller
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“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
― Helen Keller
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“Literature is my Utopia”
― Helen Keller
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“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
― Helen Keller
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“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
― Helen Keller
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement ”
― Helen Keller
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“Change: A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn. ”
― Helen Keller
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“Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.”
― Helen Keller
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“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
― Helen Keller
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“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
― Helen Keller
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“For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
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“I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”
― Helen Keller
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“Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
― Helen Keller
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“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”
― Helen Keller
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“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”
― 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, The Open Door
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“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”
― Helen Keller
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“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”
― Helen Keller
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“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”
― Helen Keller
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“So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”
― Helen Keller
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“My friends have made the story of my life.”
― Helen Keller
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“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
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“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”
― Helen Keller
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“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.”
― Helen Keller
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“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going”
― Helen Keller
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“The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of
some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent. But in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures--solitude, books and imagination--outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
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“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ”
― 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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“I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within me the capacity to know all things. In the wonderland of Mind I should be as free as another [with sight and hearing]. Its people, scenery, manners, joys, and tragedies should be living tangible interpreters of the real world. The lecture halls seemed filled with the spirit of the great and wise, and I thought the professors were the embodiment of wisdom... But I soon discovered that college was not quite the romantic lyceum I had imagined. Many of the dreams that had delighted my young inexperience became beautifully less and "faded into the light of common day." Gradually I began to find that there were disadvantages in going to college. The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent. But in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures – solitude, books and imagination – outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day.”
― Helen Keller, story of my life: with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of hereducation, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy
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“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. ”
― Helen Keller
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“We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.”
― Helen Keller
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“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”
― Helen Keller, Light in my Darkness
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“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.”
― Helen Keller
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“While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.”
― Helen Keller
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“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”
― Helen Keller
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“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.”
― Helen Keller, Rebel Lives: 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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“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
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“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.”
― Helen Keller
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“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
― Helen Keller
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“There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.”
― Helen Keller
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“Walkin in the dark with a friend is better than walking alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller
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“I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!”
― Helen Keller
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“One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
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“It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears”
― Helen Keller
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“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
― Helen Keller, My Religion
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“I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about... I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.”
― Helen Keller
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“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
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“Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.”
― Helen Keller
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“Your success and happiness lie in you.”
― Helen Keller
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“Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design. ”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
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“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.”
― Helen Keller
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“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”
― Helen Keller
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“...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller
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“If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose. ”
― Helen Keller
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“Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.”
― Helen Keller, Midstream: My Later Life
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“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”
― Helen Keller, story of my life: with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of hereducation, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy
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“I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful.”
― Helen Keller
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“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.”
― Helen Keller
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“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”
― Helen Keller
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
― Helen Keller
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“The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
― Helen Keller
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“There are times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed mind cannot enjoy the treasure it has secured at the greatest cost. ... 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. At the present time my mind is so full of heterogeneous matter that I almost despair of ever being able to put it in order. Whenever I enter the region of my mind I feel like the proverbial bull in the china shop. A thousand odds and ends of knowledge come crashing about my head like hailstones, and when I try to escape them, theme goblins and college nixies of all sorts pursue me, until I wish – oh, may I be forgiven the wicked wish! – that I might smash the idols I came to worship.”
― Helen Keller, story of my life: with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of hereducation, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy
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“Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.”
― Helen Keller
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