Helen Keller quotes - page 8

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. (Helen Keller)
We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil. View quote
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A child . . . must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks. View quote
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Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world. View quote
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I thought it strange that my teacher could not show me love. View quote
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The beautiful truth burst upon my mind - I felt that there were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirits of others. View quote
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But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. View quote
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It seemed to me that there could be nothing more beautiful than the sun, whose warmth makes all things grow. View quote
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. View quote
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I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet. View quote
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In a flash I knew that the word was the name of the process that was going on in my head. This was my first conscious perception of an abstract idea. (Helen Keller)
I had now the key to all language, and I was eager to learn to use it. View quote
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I remember the morning that I first asked the meaning of the word, "love." View quote
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I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten - a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that "w-a-t-e-r" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! There were barriers still, it is true, but barriers that could in time be swept away. View quote
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The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. View quote
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I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time! View quote
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I see the clouds part slowly, and I hear a cry of protest against the bigot. The restraining hand of tolerance is laid upon the inquisitor, and the humanist utters a message of peace to the persecuted. Instead of the cry, "Burn the heretic!" View quote
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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 free. Once I knew only darkness and stillness. Now I know hope and joy. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. Now I rejoice in the consciousness that I can think, act and attain heaven. My life was without past or future; death, the pessimist would say, "a consummation devoutly to be wished." View quote
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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 to-morrow we die." View quote
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. View quote
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Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind will transcend. (Helen Keller)
Ideas without action are worthless. View quote
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. . . militarism . . . is one of the chief bulwarks of capitalism, and the day that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail. View quote
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Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours...never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren plac. View quote
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The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks. View quote
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