Helen Keller

Daily quotes from the deaf-blind American writer!

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

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Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they would be!

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No effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

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Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind.

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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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Though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

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If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith... the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

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Blindness cuts us off from things, but deafness cuts us off from people.

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It is the possibility of happiness, intelligence and power that give life its sanctity, and they are absent in the case of a poor, misshapen, paralyzed, unthinking creature.

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To know the history of philosophy is to know that the highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

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

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The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

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It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.

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A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

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It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life.

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The growth of philosophy is the story of man's spiritual life.

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Can anyone who has escaped such captivity, who has felt the thrill and glory of freedom, be a pessimist?

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Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation. "Let us eat, drink and be merry," says the pessimist, "for tomorrow we die."

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The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.

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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.