Helen Keller citations

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“Quand une porte du bonheur se ferme, une autre s'ouvre ; mais souvent nous regardons si longtemps la porte fermée que nous ne voyons pas celle qui nous a été ouverte.”

“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”

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

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

“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”

“So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”

“My friends have made the story of my life.”

“Your success and happiness lie in you.”

“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.”

“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”

“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”

“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”

“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”

“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.”

“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.”

“One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.”

“Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.”

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

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

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”

“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.”

“Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.”

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”

“While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.”

“There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.”

“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 been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…”

“Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.”