Helen Keller Quotes - Page 11

• It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

  Helen Keller

  Civilization, Literature, World

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• When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Sympathy, Grief

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• Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Vision, Doe

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• As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

  Helen Keller

  Night Vision, True Joy, Selfish People

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.170, Book Tree

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• Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.

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  Race, People, Balance

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Baby, Simple

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.8, Om Books International

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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 discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Sweet, Book

  "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, (Ch. 21), 1903.

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• We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!

  Helen Keller

  Soul, Cry, Creeps

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• I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.

  Helen Keller

  Fear, Blessing, Sight

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• It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.

  Helen Keller

  Causes, Difficulty, Complexity

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.468, Modern Library

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• Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Speech, Chance

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

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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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  Women, Sky, Flying

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• A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

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  Children, Simple, Sea

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.185, Book Tree

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• This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

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  Gratitude, Sorrow, Tasks

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.169, Book Tree

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• What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.

  Helen Keller

  Shoes, Half, Glitter

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.8, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

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  War, Believe, Fruit

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.141, NYU Press

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• What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

  Helen Keller

  Children, Knowing, Delight

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.170, Book Tree

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• Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

  Helen Keller

  Kindness, Effort, Deeds

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• We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.

  Helen Keller

  Choices, Soul, Events

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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• The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.

  Helen Keller

  Vision, Receiving, Wonder

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

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  Health, Land, Progress

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• Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

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  Success, Kingdoms, Senses

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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.

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  Light, Darkness, Trouble

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• Knowledge is love and light and vision.

  Helen Keller

  Christian, Education, Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.16, Om Books International

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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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