Helen Keller Quotes - Page 15

• I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Desire, Way

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• There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Light, Self

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.72, 谷月社

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• The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Beautiful, Stars

  Helen Keller, SBP Editors (2017). “The Story of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.93, Samaira Book Publishers

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• I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Miracle, Texture

  "Three Days to See". Atlantic Monthly, January, 1933.

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• To get Congress to do anything.

  Helen Keller

  Congress

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.69, Matthew Gordon

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• The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Failing, Calamity

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• Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Agency, Principles

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.97, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

  Helen Keller

  Christmas, Optimism, Festivals

  Helen Keller (2013). “Optimism: An Essay”, p.29, The Floating Press

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• We should respect all people.

  Helen Keller

  People, Should

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• Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
  I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Heart, Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

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  Age, Tribes, Maldives

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.134, Matthew Gordon

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• Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

  Helen Keller

  Empty, Stomach, Company

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• Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  Hero, Army, Construction

  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 look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

  Helen Keller

  War, Looks, Feuds

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• Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

  Helen Keller

  Spiritual, Giving, Joy

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

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• The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

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  Country, Land, Bankers

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

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  Eye, Night, Light

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• I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Heart, Doors

  Helen Keller (1903). “Optimism, My Key of Life”

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• I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.

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  Philosophical, Eye, Smell

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Helen Keller

  Business, Self, Oligarchy

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• Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

  Helen Keller

  Failing, Globalization, Chiefs

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• I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

  Helen Keller

  Struggle, Fall, Victory

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.62, Om Books International

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• When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

  Helen Keller

  Positive, Doors

  "We Bereaved". Book by Helen Keller, 1929.

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• I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Soul, Mind

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

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