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Been Quotes by Helen Keller
- When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has…
- With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but…
- My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
- I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid…
- I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper.…
- When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do…
- Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me,…
- The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
- My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do,
- So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
- In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse…
- They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came…
- 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…
- Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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