Helen Keller Quotes - Page 13

• Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.

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  Life, Prayer, Hate

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

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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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  Relationship, Self Esteem, Science

  My Religion (1927) ch. 6

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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.

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  Sad, Flower, Ex Boyfriend

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• Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

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  Nature, Animal, Order

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

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• I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

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  Fighting, People, Want

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.73, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love.

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  Beautiful, Sweet, Hands

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand, if we believe that the earth is ours, and that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields because the Artist in our souls glorifies creation. Surely, it gives dignity to life to believe that we are born into this world for noble ends, and that we have a higher destiny than can be accomplished within the narrow limits of this physical life.

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  Believe, Artist, Moon

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• My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

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  Inspirational, Work, Literature

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!

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  Roots, Long, Miracle

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• Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

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  Beauty, Art, Inspiration

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• Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

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  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.

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  Sweet, Eye, Fate

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• The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?

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  Accomplishment, Joy, Pushing

  "The Open Door".

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• One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

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  Facts, Higher, Behave

  Helen Keller (1940). “Let Us Have Faith”

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• Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

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  Humanity, Poverty, Causes

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.77, American Foundation for the Blind

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• We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Imagination

  Helen Keller (2013). “The World I Live In”, p.42, The Floating Press

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• Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
  I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.

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  Baby, Curves, Hands

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.19, Om Books International

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• The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

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  Nature, Sides, Priceless

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• Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.

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  Thinking, Succeed, Neighbor

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.108, American Foundation for the Blind

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• The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

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  Sight, Vision, World

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• Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

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  World, Glory, Pleasure

  "Three Days to See". Atlantic Monthly, January, 1933.

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• I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

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  Past, Years, Fancy

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.7, Om Books International

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• One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.

  Helen Keller

  Years, Soul, Feelings

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.142, NYU Press

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• The inferiority of women is man-made.

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  Men, Inferiority, Made

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