Helen Keller Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.

  Helen Keller

  Years, Childhood, Curiosity

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• I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Silence, Darkness

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• Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  1902 The Story of My Life.

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• Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Sight, Egypt

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Life, Future

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Ideas without action are useless.

  Helen Keller

  Ideas, Useless, Action

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• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

  Helen Keller

  Life And Love, Cycling, Tolerance

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.224, 谷月社

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• There is joy in 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.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Light, Self

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.72, 谷月社

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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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• I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Miracle, Texture

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

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• Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Knowledge And Power, Deep Life

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Darkness, Intelligence

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

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• If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Moon, Sky

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• My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Beautiful, Stories

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.85, Om Books International

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• The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

  Helen Keller

  Strong Women, Fear, Avoiding Pain

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

  Helen Keller

  Joy, Noble, Affection

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• The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

  Helen Keller

  Attitude, People, Blind

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.105, American Foundation for the Blind

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• This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.

  Helen Keller

  Sweat, Long, Fruit

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

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• He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

  Helen Keller

  Progress, Path, Done

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

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• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Food, Years

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• While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.

  Helen Keller

  Everyday, Possibility, Wells

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• History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

  Helen Keller

  Struggle, Ignorance, Humanity

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• One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

  Helen Keller

  Next, Self Discipline, Painful

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.76, 谷月社

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