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 KELLEROur enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
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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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Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
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What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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My friends have made the story of my life.
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Your success and happiness lie in you.
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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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.
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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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Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.
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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience.
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.
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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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I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
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The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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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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We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.
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Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
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If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone.
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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
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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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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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While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.
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