How Does Helen Keller Have Quotes

#1. It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me ... if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me ...

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#2. True, they were broken and stammering syllables; but they were human speech. My soul, conscious of new strength, came out of bondage, and was reaching through those broken symbols of speech to all knowledge and all faith.

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#3. It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

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#4. When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

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#5. Things must be felt with the heart.

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#6. My friends have made the story of my life.

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#7. Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.

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#8. I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

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#9. People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote))

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#10. I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

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#11. Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

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#12. The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

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#13. So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

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#14. The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

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#15. Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

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#16. It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

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#17. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

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#18. Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

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#19. Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

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#20. Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

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#21. The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

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#22. To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

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#23. The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

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#24. Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.

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#25. I distrust the rash optimism in this country that cries, "Hurrah, we're all right! This is the greatest nation on earth," when there are grievances that call loudly for redress.

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#26. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

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#27. The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

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#28. Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

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#29. To get Congress to do anything.

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#30. The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

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