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From Quotes by Helen Keller
- Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable…
- Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can…
- When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers…
- More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
- Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
- Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
- God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called.…
- Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
- Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly,…
- Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that…
- Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul…
- Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit…
- Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from…
- It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot…
- Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed,…
- 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…
- Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into…
- Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book…
- Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
- Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I…
- If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light…
- Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
- Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty…
- 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…
- 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…
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