There is joy in self-forgetfulness.
HELEN KELLEROne painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
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The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
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If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
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It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
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Your success and happiness lie in you.
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We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
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To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
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What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Knowledge is power.
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Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
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Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
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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.
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.
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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.
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The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
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While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.
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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.
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I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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