I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
HELEN KELLERLiterature is my Utopia
More Helen Keller Quotes
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People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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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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We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.
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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 most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
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In a thousand ways my friends turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery.
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What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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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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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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Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.
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Relationships are like Rome – difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall.
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There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
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A bend in the road is not the end of the road. Unless you fail to make the turn.
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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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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
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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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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience.
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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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I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
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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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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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If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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