Helen Keller Quotes

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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

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspiring, Graduation, Sight

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• It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Interest, Hard

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.87, Matthew Gordon

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• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

  Helen Keller

  Respect, Appreciation, Struggle

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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  The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Women, Sight

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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.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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  Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

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• Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

  Helen Keller

  Sadness, World, Enough

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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• True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

  Helen Keller

  Teaching, Reading, Book

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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

  Pain, Believe, Helping Others

  "We Bereaved". Book by Helen Keller, 1929.

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• One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.

  Helen Keller

  Years, Childhood, Curiosity

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

  Helen Keller

  Success, Careers, Failing

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• The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

  Helen Keller

  Dream, Comfort, High Anxiety

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  Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Angel, Light

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• What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Retirement, Self

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• The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.

  Helen Keller

  Should Have, Too Late, Done

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• What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

  Helen Keller

  Determination, Quiet, Life Is

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.37, American Foundation for the Blind

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• A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.

  Helen Keller

  Smile, Journey, Long

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• The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

  Helen Keller

  Cancer, Struggle, Blessing

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• We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

  Helen Keller

  Trying, Lives Of Others, Really Happy

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.26, American Foundation for the Blind

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• A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

  Helen Keller

  Motivational, Heart, Imagination

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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