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Helen Keller: “I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.
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Helen Keller: “Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
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Helen Keller: “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Helen Keller: “Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
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Helen Keller: “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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Helen Keller: “The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
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Helen Keller: “The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
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Helen Keller: “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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Helen Keller: “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
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Helen Keller: “The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
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Helen Keller: “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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Helen Keller: “I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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Helen Keller: “I seldom think of my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
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Helen Keller: “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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Helen Keller: “It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.
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Helen Keller: “To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
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Helen Keller: “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
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Helen Keller: “I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.
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Helen Keller: “I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
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Helen Keller: “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
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Helen Keller: “A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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Helen Keller: “Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Helen Keller: “Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light! Give me light!' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
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