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Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Helen Keller
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Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.
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I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.
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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.
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I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord.
Helen Keller
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The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
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The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
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If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!
Helen Keller -
I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
Helen Keller -
A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea
Helen Keller
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Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
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We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
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I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
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Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.
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More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
Helen Keller
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To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
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What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.
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I never fight, except against difficulties.
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Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.
Helen Keller