Helen Keller Quotes
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
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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.
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Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.
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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.
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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
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I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.
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So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
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...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
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Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
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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.
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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.
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We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
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I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.
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The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.
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The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
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I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about... I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.
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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
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I have found life so beautiful.
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The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.