Helen Keller Quotes

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

Helen Keller

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• Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Think

• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Humor
  • Head
  • Tragedy

• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
  • Critics

• He plants trees to benefit another generation.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • Trees
  • Plants
  • Gardening

• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fact
  • Grandchildren
  • Slaves

• I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Character
  • History

• I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Watch

• God has pity on kindergarten children.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • God
  • Children
  • Kindergarten

• My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • Believe
  • Suffering
  • Thoughts

• We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé a voir' [it is easy to see].

  

  W. W. Rouse Ball
  • Science
  • Easy
  • Details

• The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook—even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.

  

  R. T. Kendall
  • Father
  • Hurt
  • Forgiveness

• Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

  

  Baba Hari Dass
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Steadfast
  • Devotee
  • Rama

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Happiness
  • Fortune

• Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

  

  Ovid
  • Night
  • Woman
  • Darkness

• If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

  

  Steve Coogan
  • Chase
  • Desperately
  • Eludes

• Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Darkness
  • Adopted