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Helen Keller
June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

   

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

   

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

   

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

   

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

   

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

   

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

   

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

   

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

   

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

   

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

   

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

   

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

   

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

   

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

   

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

   

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.

   

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

   

The highest result of education is tolerance.

   

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

    Topics: Death

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