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Helen Keller Quotes - Page 5

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What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

Teacher, Civilization, Progress

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.44, American Foundation for the Blind

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

Cheating, Evil, Optimism

Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

Teaching, Reading, Book

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

1902 The Story of My Life.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Inspirational, Life, Leadership

Address to American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Philadelphia, Pa., 8 July 1896

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Strong Women, Fear, Avoiding Pain

Let Us Have Faith (1940)

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

Hands, Luxury, Sunbeams

Helen Keller (2013). “The World I Live In”, p.41, The Floating Press

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

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

Light, Joy, Soul

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.5, Matthew Gordon

Literature is my Utopia

Book, Reading, Literature

Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.65, 谷月社

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

Eye, Use, Tomorrow

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

Learning, Light, Order

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

Mind, Resources, Inner Life

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Teacher, Cheer, Teaching

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Inspirational, Beautiful, Women

Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.544, The Floating Press

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

Ignorance, Optimism, Indifference

Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Pain, Believe, Helping Others

"We Bereaved". Book by Helen Keller, 1929.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Death, Believe, Soul

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.157, Matthew Gordon

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

Struggle, Moving, Twilight

Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.106, Courier Corporation

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Motivational, Heart, Imagination

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

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

Views, Punishment, Overcoming

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

Flower, Ideas, People

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Happiness, Determination, Bad Ass

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Death, Wisdom, Peace

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