Helen Keller Quotes - Famous Quotes by Helen Keller
Born: 1880-06-27
Died: 1968-06-01
Helen Keller Biography
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.
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Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
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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.
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Keep your eyes to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
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Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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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.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
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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.
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
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The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
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The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.
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The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
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Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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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.
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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.
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