Helen Keller on truth
“What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience.
Helen KellerHelen Keller Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen KellerHelen Keller Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen KellerHelen Keller 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.
Helen KellerHelen Keller For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
Helen KellerHelen Keller Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen KellerHelen Keller The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.
Helen KellerHelen Keller Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.
Helen KellerHelen Keller The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
Helen KellerHelen Keller College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
Helen KellerHelen Keller One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
Helen KellerHelen Keller So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
Helen KellerHelen Keller Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen KellerHelen Keller Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Helen KellerHelen Keller 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.
Helen KellerHelen Keller Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
Helen KellerHelen Keller
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
SocratesSocrates A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
Stephen KingStephen King I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George WashingtonGeorge Washington He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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