Helen Keller Quotes - Page 9

• The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Hands, Water

  The Story of My Life ch. 4 (1902)

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• It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Interest, Hard

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.87, Matthew Gordon

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

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

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• The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Peace, Preparedness

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

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• We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

  Helen Keller

  Appreciation, Ignorance, Self

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.190, Book Tree

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• If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.

  Helen Keller

  Law, Perfect, Growth

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

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• There's only one story, the story of your life.

  Helen Keller

  Stories

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• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

  Helen Keller

  Respect, Appreciation, Struggle

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

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• Life is an adventure or nothing

  Helen Keller

  Adventure, Life Is, Life Is An Adventure

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• Be happy. Talk happiness.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness

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

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• The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

  Helen Keller

  World, Earth, Fields

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Stars, Optimistic

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.

  Helen Keller

  Spring, Heart, Sea

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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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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• There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Kings, Diversity

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

  Helen Keller

  Motivational, People, Immature

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

  Helen Keller

  Science, Unseen Things, Giving

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

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• The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.

  Helen Keller

  War, Sacrifice, Faces

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• If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Happiness, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

  Helen Keller

  Dark, Valleys, Half

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.186, Book Tree

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• Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.

  Helen Keller

  Adventure, Keys, Gullibility

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• There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

  Helen Keller

  Race, Profit, Insidious

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• To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Strength, Fate

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

  Helen Keller

  Ideas

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.81, American Foundation for the Blind

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