Helen Keller Quotes - Page 8

• He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

  Helen Keller

  Progress, Path, Done

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

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• Knowledge is love and light and vision.

  Helen Keller

  Christian, Education, Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.16, Om Books International

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• There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

  Helen Keller

  Race, Profit, Insidious

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• The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Dark, Light

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.32, American Foundation for the Blind

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• It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Interest, Hard

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.87, Matthew Gordon

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• The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Peace, Preparedness

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

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• My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Darkness, Intelligence

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

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• It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

  Helen Keller

  Science, Unseen Things, Giving

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

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• To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Strength, Fate

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

  Helen Keller

  Faith, Despair, No Fear

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• Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

  Helen Keller

  Kindness, Effort, Deeds

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• The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Hands, Water

  The Story of My Life ch. 4 (1902)

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• Ideas without action are useless.

  Helen Keller

  Ideas, Useless, Action

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• The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

  Helen Keller

  Born, Capacity, Humans

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• Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.

  Helen Keller

  Spring, Heart, Sea

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

  Helen Keller

  Appreciation, Ignorance, Self

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.190, Book Tree

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• The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

  Helen Keller

  Tasks, Organize, Workers

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• Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Doe, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.20, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

  Helen Keller

  Real, Character, Fire

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• The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Teamwork, Welfare

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

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

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

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• How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.

  Helen Keller

  Grief, Ears, Mourn

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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.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Life, Future

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Beauty, Valentines Day

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• Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Travel, Adventure, Life Is

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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