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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.

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I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

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The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

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The world is moved not 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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There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

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We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world.

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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

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Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

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I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.

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

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

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No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

– Helen Keller

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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

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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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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

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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 opened for us.

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One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.

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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.

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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

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The highest result of education is tolerance.

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When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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There are none so blind as those who will not see!

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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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

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I am only one; but still I am one. I may not be able to do everything, but still I can do something.

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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.

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Many persons 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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The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.

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Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

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It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

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Keep your eyes to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

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

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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

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I seldom think about 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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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

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Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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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 friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

– Helen Keller

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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

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When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us.

– Helen Keller

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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

– Helen Keller

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

– Helen Keller

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Confidence is the master of fate.

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I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name.

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I know that life is given us so that we may grow in love. And I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of the flower, the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

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Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.

– Helen Keller

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Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

– Helen Keller

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My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

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No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

– Helen Keller

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No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

– Helen Keller

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

– Helen Keller

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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.

– Helen Keller

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

– Helen Keller

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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

– Helen Keller

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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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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.

– Helen Keller

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