Helen Keller Quotes - Page 7

• Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Rights, Brain

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.42, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

  Helen Keller

  Apology, Charity, Philanthropy

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.232, NYU Press

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• The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Dark, Light

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.32, American Foundation for the Blind

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• If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

  Helen Keller

  Writing, Thinking, Soul

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.290, 谷月社

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• Your success and happiness lie in you.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Success, Lying

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.154, Matthew Gordon

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• Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Beauty, Valentines Day

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• Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Mean, Self

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• If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Work, Trying, Menace

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• It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.26, Om Books International

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• It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

  Helen Keller

  Mind, Substance, Certain

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• I am only one,
  But still I am one.

  Helen Keller

  Responsibility, Volunteer, Solitude

  "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

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• Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

  Helen Keller

  Freedom, Real, Mean

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.68, Matthew Gordon

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• Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

  Helen Keller

  Faith, Despair, No Fear

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• True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

  Helen Keller

  Teaching, Reading, Book

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• Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Use, Tomorrow

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• I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

  Helen Keller

  Flames, Soul, Eternity

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.27, Book Tree

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• People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Ideas, People

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• If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows.

  Helen Keller

  Sunshine, Shadow, Looks

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• The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

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• I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

  Helen Keller

  Views, Punishment, Overcoming

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• I will eat grandfather for dinner.

  Helen Keller

  Grandfather, Dinner

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.457, The Floating Press

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• Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

  Helen Keller

  Wings, Mind

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.255, The Floating Press

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• More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

  Helen Keller

  Book, Fall, Hands

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.1, NYU Press

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• I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.

  Helen Keller

  Country, War, School

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.42, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Literature is my Utopia

  Helen Keller

  Book, Reading, Literature

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.65, 谷月社

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