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Helen Keller Quotes - Page 8

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My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

Light, Darkness, Intelligence

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

Ideas without action are useless.

Ideas, Useless, Action

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

Tasks, Organize, Workers

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Science, Unseen Things, Giving

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Inspirational, Strength, Fate

Let Us Have Faith (1940)

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

Progress, Path, Done

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

The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.

Heart, Dark, Light

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.32, American Foundation for the Blind

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

Interest, Hard

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.87, Matthew Gordon

Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

Faith, Despair, No Fear

The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.

Light, Hands, Water

The Story of My Life ch. 4 (1902)

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

Beautiful, Doe, World

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.20, American Foundation for the Blind

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

Appreciation, Ignorance, Self

Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.190, Book Tree

How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.

Grief, Ears, Mourn

Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.

Spring, Heart, Sea

Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.93, Courier Corporation

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

Real, Character, Fire

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Life, Teamwork, Welfare

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

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

Travel, Adventure, Life Is

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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.

Love, Life, Future

Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

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

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Love, Beauty, Valentines Day

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Inspirational, Motivational, Vision

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

War, Believe, Fruit

Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.141, NYU Press

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Peace, Passion, World

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Life, Happy, Education

Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

The way forward is simple - just follow Christ!

Simple, Way Forward, Way

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