Quotes by Helen Keller

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The only thing worse than blindness is having seeing eyes but no vision.

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The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of people who overcome the suffering.

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Security is mostly just a superstition, as it never occurs in nature, nor is it experienced in human life. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than facing it. Life is a bold venture or a big nothing.

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You can neither see nor touch the most beautiful things in the world. The heart must feel them.

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Silence weighs on my soul like a terrible burden. Then hope appears with a smile and whispers: "even self-forgetfulness has its own joy". So I try to turn the light in other people's eyes into my day, the sound that rings in other people's ears into my music, and the smile that appears on other people's lips into my happiness.

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Science is power. Moreover, knowledge is happiness, because one who has broad and deep knowledge distinguishes the true goal from the false one, the high order from the low. Anyone who gets to know the thoughts and actions born through human progress can feel the heartbeat of humanity over the centuries. And whoever doesn't feel the desire to aspire to the sky from this striking reasoning, before him the harmony of life is buried in eternal darkness.

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I learned many things that would have been impossible to learn without experience. One of the precious sciences of patience, which taught me that learning should be taken like a walk in the field, with ease. (...) The knowledge gained in this way imperceptibly floods the soul with deep streams of thought.

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I didn't know what the future had in store for me. For weeks I was tormented by anger and bitterness, and then lethargy followed. Have you ever been at sea in a thick fog, when you felt as if you were surrounded by that almost palpable gray darkness, when the big, heavy ship groped its way towards the shore restlessly and excitedly with the gauge, and you waited with a pounding heart to see what would happen next? ? I was like that ship, with the difference that I didn't have a compass or sound signal, and I didn't know how far there was to shore.

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The roads leading to places worth going to cannot be shortened.

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When will we finally learn that we are all part of one system? Until the world is filled with love for our fellow man, regardless of race, color or religion; until our lives and actions are permeated by a sense of belonging, until masses of people feel responsible for the prosperity and well-being of their fellows, social justice can never be realized.

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I want to do great and noble things, but my main duty is to do the smaller things as if they were great and noble.

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Self-pity is our greatest enemy. If we succumb to it, we cannot do anything wise in our whole life.

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I believe that we were given life to grow in love; and I believe that God is in me, as the sun is in the light and the fragrance is in the flower... I believe in the immortality of the soul, because I carry immortal desires within me.

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We can never lose what we once found joy in. All those we love deeply become a part of us.

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One can never be satisfied with crawling on the ground if one really wants to soar.

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Better to walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.

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Love is like a beautiful flower that I may not be able to touch, but the smell of which definitely turns the garden into a place of joy.

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Silence and stillness do not develop character. Only in the wake of suffering and trials does the soul grow stronger, the vision clears, ambition rises and success comes.

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Safety is a myth. It does not exist. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than facing it head on.

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I don't want the peace that comes with agreement. I want the agreement that will bring peace.

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I'm only one, but I'm still one. I don't know everything, but I just know something. And I don't refuse to do what I can.

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I started reading the Bible long before I could understand it. Now I find it strange that there was even a time in my life when my soul did not grasp its wonderful harmony.

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From the deep and comforting spirit of the Bible, we are comforted by the fact that "the things seen are temporary, but the things unseen are eternal."

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The red-letter days of our lives are those when we meet people who can inspire us like an effective poem, people whose handshakes make us feel sincere sympathy, whose sweet and rich disposition breathes divine comfort into our longing and impatient souls. The many troubles, excitements, and fatigues in which we were almost immersed disappear like some unpleasant dream and upon awakening we see with new eyes and listen with new ears to the beauty and harmony of God's real world. The gloomy and seemingly impossible things that we encounter every day turn into bright hope in an instant.

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Pessimists never discover the secrets of the stars, they never sail into uncharted worlds, and they never open new horizons for the human spirit.

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Respect everyone's country, but love your own.

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I thank God for three things every day: for allowing me to know His work; for lighting the lamp of faith for me in the darkness; and above all, because another existence awaits me, full of joy of life, flower splendor and heavenly melodies.

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Anyone who wants to reach the true realization must climb the mountain of difficulties alone.

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Life is either a reckless adventure or nothing.

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We would never experience courage and patience if life consisted only of pleasures.

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The amazing richness of human experience wouldn't bring us so much joy if we didn't have to overcome limitations. Reaching the top wouldn't make me half as happy if we didn't have to pass through dark valleys.

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True happiness does not come from taking care of ourselves, but from devoting ourselves to a worthy cause.

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When one door to happiness closes, another one opens. But we often look back at the closed door for so long that we don't notice the one that opened before us.