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"51 Helen Keller Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 27 June 1880. Died: 1 June 1968 | Author |

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Lesson Live Understood Life
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Achievement Confidence Done Faith
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Being Blind Having Only
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Things Beautiful Best Cannot
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Achieved Ambition Cannot Character
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Also Although Full Overcoming
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Anything Enough Long Stick
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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Always Bend Eye Head
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Brave Could Joy Learn
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Cannot Face Keep See
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I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

About Among Breeze Flowers
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Anything Enemy Never Our
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Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Knowledge Light Love Vision
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While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Among Cannot Done Saying
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Apathy Beings Cure Evils
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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.

Another Darkness Emptiness Fell
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
Education Highest Result Tolerance
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Beautiful Delight Flower Fragrance
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone Better Dark Friend
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Consent Creep Feels Impulse
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It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Everything Hard Interest Nothing
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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Dark Experience Half Hour
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The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Aggregate Along Also Each
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Carpet Grass Lush Luxurious
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Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Adventure Either Great Life
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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Before Behind Climb Fears
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I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Call Dark Golden Happy
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Accomplish Chief Duty Great
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Emerge Faith Light Shall
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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.

Attained Fidelity Happiness Idea
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Business Exciting Life Lived
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Another Best Know Life
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

College Go Ideas Place
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Across Lived Miles Potent
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The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Age Becomes Heresy Next
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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Becomes Deeply Enjoyed Lose
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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Arrow Eagle Feather Hand
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No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Dull Feels Happiness He
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Clears Complaint Joy Love
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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Another Blind Needs Person
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Balance Bicycle Brain Effort
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Advance Backwards Civilization Flow
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

See Terrible Thing Vision
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Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Against Battles Fought Strike
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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Delightful Most Must Senses
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What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Am Looking Me Out
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Alone Little Much Together
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Consume Happiness Producing Right
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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Most Pathetic Person Sight
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Beloved Certain Friends Good
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Helen Keller Quotes & Sayings