Our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
HELEN KELLERI do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
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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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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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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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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
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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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Literature is my Utopia
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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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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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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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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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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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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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So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
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