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Helen Keller Quotes - Page 11

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I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

Men, Political, Shooting

Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.465, Modern Library

The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.

Vision, Receiving, Wonder

Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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

Born, Capacity, Humans

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

Ideas

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.81, American Foundation for the Blind

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

Life, Baby, Simple

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.8, Om Books International

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

Grief, Losing A Loved One, Loss

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

Wall, Fall, Land

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.

Love, Wall, Heart

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.3, American Foundation for the Blind

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

Sight, Things In Life, People

I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

True Joy, Tools, Made

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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.

Relationship, Self Esteem, Science

My Religion (1927) ch. 6

While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.

Everyday, Possibility, Wells

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

Humanity, Poverty, Causes

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

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

Attitude, People, Blind

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.105, American Foundation for the Blind

Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

Lying, Land, Promised Land

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

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

Sweet, Pain, Pleasure

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

Children, Speech, Chance

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

The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way

Opportunity, Hands, Abuse

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.

Sad, Flower, Ex Boyfriend

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

Tragedy, Apathy, Way

Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.90, Courier Corporation

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

War, Hero, Mean

Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

Civilization, Suffering, Degrees

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.80, American Foundation for the Blind

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

Gratitude, Appreciation, Nature

Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.79, Courier Corporation

The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?

Accomplishment, Joy, Pushing

"The Open Door".

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