Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
HELEN KELLERAs selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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Literature is my Utopia
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
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For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
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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.
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The mind is as big as the universe.
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A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
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Our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
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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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As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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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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We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
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