Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
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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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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The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.
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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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I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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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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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
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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 marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.
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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 believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
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