Helen Keller Quotes - Page 11

• I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Political, Shooting

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.465, Modern Library

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• I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

  Helen Keller

  Educational, Names, Smell

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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.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Happy, Wise

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• ...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

  Helen Keller

  Understanding, Depth, Literature

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.63, Om Books International

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• The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

  Helen Keller

  Ideas

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.81, American Foundation for the Blind

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• The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

  Helen Keller

  Vision, Born, Worst

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• The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Baby, Simple

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.8, Om Books International

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• We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

  Helen Keller

  Grief, Losing A Loved One, Loss

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• Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

  Helen Keller

  Wall, Fall, Land

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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. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Wall, Heart

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.3, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

  Helen Keller

  True Joy, Tools, Made

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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.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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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.

  Helen Keller

  Relationship, Self Esteem, Science

  My Religion (1927) ch. 6

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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.

  Helen Keller

  Everyday, Possibility, Wells

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• The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

  Helen Keller

  Attitude, People, Blind

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.105, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

  Helen Keller

  Humanity, Poverty, Causes

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.77, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Speech, Chance

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

  Helen Keller

  Lying, Land, Promised Land

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Pain, Pleasure

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• The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way

  Helen Keller

  Opportunity, Hands, Abuse

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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.

  Helen Keller

  Sad, Flower, Ex Boyfriend

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• When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

  Helen Keller

  Funny Love, Doors, Long

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• Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  War, Hero, Mean

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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• I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

  Helen Keller

  Tragedy, Apathy, Way

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

  Helen Keller

  Civilization, Suffering, Degrees

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.80, American Foundation for the Blind

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