Helen Keller Quotes
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I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
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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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Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
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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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My friends have made the story of my life.
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People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.
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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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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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What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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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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We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
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Smell is a fallen angel.
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Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
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I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
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I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
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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 of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.
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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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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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To get Congress to do anything.
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The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
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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 chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
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Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.