I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
HELEN KELLERFor one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
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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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Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.
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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 unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
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What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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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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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
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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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Your success and happiness lie in you.
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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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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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So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
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