Helen Keller Quotes
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The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
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My friends have made the story of my life.
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Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
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When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within--a spirit of growth and beauty.
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With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
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The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
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When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?
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I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
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A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.
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Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.
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I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
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While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.
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My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.
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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.