Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
HELEN KELLERPeople do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
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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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True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience.
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The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
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The only lightless dark is the night of ingnorance and insensibility.
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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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Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.
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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
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