Helen Keller Quotes - Page 5

• I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Investing

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• With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Death, Taken

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

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• When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.

  Helen Keller

  Memories, Heart, Life Is Good

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.33, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Fear: the best way out is through.

  Helen Keller

  Way, Best Way

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• It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Vision

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• The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Awareness, Educated

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

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• Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

  Helen Keller

  Cheating, Evil, Optimism

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Civilization, Progress

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.44, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Sight, Literature

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• Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Voice, Humanity

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• Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.

  Helen Keller

  Vision, Would Be, Able

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• We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

  Helen Keller

  Crush, Trials, Force

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.192, Book Tree

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• The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

  Helen Keller

  Sight, Things In Life, People

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• The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Cheer, Teaching

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• The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

  Helen Keller

  Light, Joy, Soul

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.5, Matthew Gordon

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• Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

  Helen Keller

  Hands, Luxury, Sunbeams

  Helen Keller (2013). “The World I Live In”, p.41, The Floating Press

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• True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

  Helen Keller

  Teaching, Reading, Book

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• I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

  Helen Keller

  Apology, Charity, Philanthropy

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.232, NYU Press

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• If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Work, Trying, Menace

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• I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

  Helen Keller

  Learning, Light, Order

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• Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Use, Tomorrow

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• Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

  Helen Keller

  Mind, Resources, Inner Life

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• Literature is my Utopia

  Helen Keller

  Book, Reading, Literature

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.65, 谷月社

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• Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Struggle, Moving, Twilight

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Things In Life, Handicaps

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