Helen Keller Quotes - Page 9

• A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Meaningful, Men

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• World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

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  Peace, Passion, World

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• Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

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  Life, Happy, Education

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

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  War, Believe, Fruit

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.141, NYU Press

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• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

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  Respect, Appreciation, Struggle

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

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• Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.

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  Adventure, Keys, Gullibility

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• The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

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  World, Earth, Fields

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

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  Night Vision, True Joy, Selfish People

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.170, Book Tree

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• We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!

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  Soul, Cry, Creeps

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• Look the world straight in the eye.

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  Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

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  Dark, Valleys, Half

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.186, Book Tree

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• We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.

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  Choices, Soul, Events

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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• What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

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  Children, Knowing, Delight

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.170, Book Tree

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• Your success and happiness lie in you.

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  Inspirational, Success, Lying

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.154, Matthew Gordon

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• The way forward is simple - just follow Christ!

  Helen Keller

  Simple, Way Forward, Way

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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.

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  Eagles, Hands, Skills

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

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• I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

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  Spring, World, Return

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.52, American Foundation for the Blind

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• health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

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  Health, Land, Progress

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• There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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  Life, Kings, Diversity

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

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  Abstract, Concrete, Plenty

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

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• I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

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  Believe, Humility, Use

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.1, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

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  Sadness, World, Enough

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

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

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  Nature, Garden, Luxury

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• Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

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  People, Womens Rights, Deafness

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• Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

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  Light, Darkness, Trouble

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