Helen Keller Quotes
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I never fight, except against difficulties.
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The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
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We should respect all people.
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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.
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For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.
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The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
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The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
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Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
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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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Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.
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The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his 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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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
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I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!
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I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
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I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
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Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
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Fear: the best way out is through.
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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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To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
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I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
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Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
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Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.