Helen Keller Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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.

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  Years, Soul, Feelings

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

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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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• There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

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  Beautiful, Order, Giving

  Helen Keller (2009). “The World I Live in”, p.132, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

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  Fall, Men, Together

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

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• What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

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  Sight, Vision, Born

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• I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

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  True Joy, Tools, Made

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• I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

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  Lying, Heaven, Soul

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.69, Om Books International

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• It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.

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  Art, Spring, Pride

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

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  Vision, Born, Worst

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• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

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  Gratitude, Disappointment, Doors

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• I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.

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  Nature, Desire, Way

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