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

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Women, Sight

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• I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

  Helen Keller

  Educational, Names, Smell

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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  You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Cheer, Optimistic

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.544, The Floating Press

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• Fear: the best way out is through.

  Helen Keller

  Way, Best Way

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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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• Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Eye, Two

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• A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Moving On, Encouraging

  125 Copy quote

• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

  Helen Keller

  Positive, Hope, Encouragement

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• Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

  Helen Keller

  Success, Lying, Accidents

  "To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by 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

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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

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• When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

  Helen Keller

  Shadow, Faces, Sun

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• The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.

  Helen Keller

  Order, Unhappy, May

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• I am only one,
  But still I am one.
  I cannot do everything,
  But still I can do something;
  And because I cannot do everything,
  I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Single

  "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

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• Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Needs, Problem

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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

  Life, Learning, Thinking

  Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1921). “The Story of My Life: with her letters (1887--1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan”, Doubleday, Page & Company

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• The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

  Helen Keller

  You Make Me Happy, Way, Make Me Happy

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

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