Helen Keller Quotes - Page 4

• Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

  Helen Keller

  Morning, Fire, Joy

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

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• Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

  Helen Keller

  Bad Ass, Soul, Darkness

  Helen Keller (2013). “Optimism: An Essay”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Adversity, Knowing Who You Are

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• Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  "How to Help Someone Who is Depressed, or Suicidal : Practical Suggestions from a Survivor". Book by John Cook, 1993.

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• How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.

  Helen Keller

  Grief, Ears, Mourn

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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 test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

  Helen Keller

  Compassion, Air, People

  The Home Magazine, Apr. 1935

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• A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Meaningful, Men

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• Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Voice, Humanity

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• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

  Helen Keller

  People, Womens Rights, Deafness

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• The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

  Helen Keller

  Knowledge, World, Construction

  Helen Keller (2013). “The World I Live In”, p.44, The Floating Press

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• Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Doe, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.20, American Foundation for the Blind

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• When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

  Helen Keller

  Strong Women, Independent Women, Best Effort

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• It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

  Helen Keller

  Hard Work, Heart, Doors

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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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• Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord.

  Helen Keller

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Strong

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• Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Thinking, Compassion

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• Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Positivity, Doe

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• The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.

  Helen Keller

  Character, Support, Democracy

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• Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

  Helen Keller

  Spirit, Wonder, Wonder Of Nature

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.55, Matthew Gordon

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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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• Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

  Helen Keller

  Women, Responsibility, People

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.111, Matthew Gordon

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• The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

  Helen Keller

  Sight, Vision, Tragedy

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• I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

  Helen Keller

  Learning, Light, Order

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