Helen Keller Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

  Helen Keller

  Best Friend, Long Distance Relationship, True Friend

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• What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

  Helen Keller

  Determination, Quiet, Life Is

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.37, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

  Helen Keller

  Cheating, Evil, Optimism

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

  Helen Keller

  Ignorance, Optimism, Indifference

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.111, Om Books International

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• When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.

  Helen Keller

  Memories, Heart, Life Is Good

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.33, American Foundation for the Blind

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• The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

  Helen Keller

  Light, Joy, Soul

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.5, Matthew Gordon

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• With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Death, Taken

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

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• A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

  Helen Keller

  Shapes, Normal, Source

  Helen Keller (1955). “Teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy: a tribute by the foster-child of her mind”

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• We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Address to American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Philadelphia, Pa., 8 July 1896

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