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Helen Keller
American
Author
Born:
Jun 27
,
1880
Died:
Jun 1
,
1968
Great
Happiness
Life
Me
World
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Henry David Thoreau
Joseph Campbell
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller
Suffering
World
All The World
Also
Overcoming
Full
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.
Helen Keller
Great
Long
Duty
Small
Noble
Were
Accomplish
Chief
Task
Tasks
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller
Happiness
Consume
No-One
Without
Producing
Right
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 shall be able to see.
Helen Keller
Death
Me
You
Other
See
Able
More
Shall
Know
Another
Because
Passing
Than
Difference
Room
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller
Experience
Joy
Wonderful
Dark
Overcome
Half
Lose
Valleys
Would
Something
Marvelous
Hour
Limitations
Were
Human
Rewarding
Human Experience
Richness
Traverse
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
Never
Feels
Impulse
Soar
Consent
Creep
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
Pessimist
Stars
Secret
Spirit
Uncharted
Opened
New
Sailed
Discovered
Human
Doorway
The Secret Of
Land
Human Spirit
Ever
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller
People
Think
Pleasant
Must
Like
Reach
Always
Conclusions
Thinks
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
Life
Best
Our
Miracle
Never
Know
Wrought
Another
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
Balance
Gift
Mind
Bicycle
Greatest Gift
Oneself
Takes
Greatest
Brain
Effort
Same
Requires
Toleration
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
Peace
Understanding
Want
Which
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.
Helen Keller
Great
Travel
Our
Distant
Beating
Toward
Equal
Powers
Go
Pray
Goal
Forever
Hearts
Tasks
Door
Us
Forward
Desire
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.
Helen Keller
World
Own
Wounded
Winged
Feather
His
Arrow
Hand
Skill
Eagle
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
Worst
Evils
Remedy
Most
Cure
May
Human
Human Beings
Apathy
Them
Beings
Found
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen Keller
Me
You
Be Happy
Happy
World
Dark
See
Call
Golden
Which
Manmade
Why
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
Fear
Long
Danger
Run
Fearful
Outright
Long Run
Safer
Caught
Than
Often
Avoiding
Bold
Exposure
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller
World
Heroes
Only
Pushes
Along
Also
Tiny
Moved
Mighty
Worker
Aggregate
Each
Honest
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller
Work
Fact
Share
Makes
Limited
Precious
May
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
Me
Book
Sweet
Embarrassment
Out
Talk
Without
Am
Friends
Gracious
Disenfranchised
Senses
Literature
Barrier
Utopia
Awkwardness
Here
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller
God
Religion
Me
Wonderful
Sky
Fears
Before
Mountains
Climb
Liquid
Behind
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.
Helen Keller
Great
Men
Our
Those
Great Majority
More
Instead
Fellow
Majority
Fellow Men
Lot
Privileged
Than
Then
Should
Fortunate
Who
Compare
Appears
Comparing
Among
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen Keller
Experience
People
Nothing
Range
Find
About
Outside
Beyond
Know
Look
Within
Conclude
Short
Either
Little
Themselves
Many
Therefore
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
Helen Keller
Youth
World
Will
Backwards
Possible
Civilization
Advance
Headstrong
May
While
Length
Flow
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.
Helen Keller
Sad
Me
Think
About
Touch
Seldom
Never
Like
Perhaps
Make
Limitations
Yearning
Times
Just
Breeze
Among
Flowers
Vague
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller
You
Smell
Thousands
Potent
Wizard
Years
Across
Miles
Transports
Lived
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller
Teacher
Needs
Self
Blind
Blind Person
Another
Person
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