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Helen Keller Quotes - Page 9

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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Respect, Appreciation, Struggle

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

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Dark, Valleys, Half

Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.186, Book Tree

Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.

Adventure, Keys, Gullibility

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

Spring, World, Return

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.52, American Foundation for the Blind

We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.

Choices, Soul, Events

Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

World, Earth, Fields

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

We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!

Soul, Cry, Creeps

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

Night Vision, True Joy, Selfish People

Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.170, Book Tree

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

Children, Knowing, Delight

Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.170, Book Tree

Your success and happiness lie in you.

Inspirational, Success, Lying

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.154, Matthew Gordon

Look the world straight in the eye.

Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Eagles, Hands, Skills

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

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Life, Kings, Diversity

Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.5, Courier Corporation

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

People, Womens Rights, Deafness

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Abstract, Concrete, Plenty

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

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

Sadness, World, Enough

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

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Believe, Humility, Use

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.1, American Foundation for the Blind

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

Nature, Garden, Luxury

Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

Beautiful, Strong, Men

Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.31, Courier Corporation

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

Sight, Vision, Tragedy

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Light, Darkness, Trouble

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

Family, Sympathy, Grief

They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.

Eye, Should Have, Soul

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So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Pain, Long, Generosity

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.159, Matthew Gordon

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.

Peace, War, Battle

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.

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