Helen Keller
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller
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
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Helen Keller
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
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.
Helen Keller
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
Helen Keller
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen Keller
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
