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Helen Keller Quotes - Page 12

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Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent,

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.

Sweet, Eye, Fate

We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."

Life, Country, Lonely

When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.

Strong, Thinking, Rights

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

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.

Country, Mean, Men

If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand, if we believe that the earth is ours, and that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields because the Artist in our souls glorifies creation. Surely, it gives dignity to life to believe that we are born into this world for noble ends, and that we have a higher destiny than can be accomplished within the narrow limits of this physical life.

Believe, Artist, Moon

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

Funny Love, Doors, Long

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

Nature, Animal, Order

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

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Christmas, Xmas, Real

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

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

World, Glory, Pleasure

"Three Days to See". Atlantic Monthly, January, 1933.

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

Happiness, Thinking, Compassion

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

Sight, Vision, Born

The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

Ideas, Brotherhood, Dawn

Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.100, Courier Corporation

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

Teacher, Important, Remember

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.17, Om Books International

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

Dark, Thinking, Allies

I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

Writing, Discovery, Hands

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

Mind, Substance, Certain

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

Self, Found, Handicaps

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

Life, Knowledge, Math

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.146, Om Books International

No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

Nature, Loss, Men

Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.

Children, Distance, Fall

Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.81, Modern Library

Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

Eye, Vision, Doe

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Ideas, Defeat, Tyranny

"Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings" exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, April 13, 2003.

When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?

Body, Members, Related

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.110, Matthew Gordon

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

Lying, Heaven, Soul

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.69, Om Books International

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.

Fate, Order, Optimism

Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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