Helen Keller Quotes
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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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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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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
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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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So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
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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 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.
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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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I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
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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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Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
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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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The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
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Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
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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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There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.
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Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.
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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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The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.
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I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.
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I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.