Helen Keller
Helen Keller Quotes
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“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
“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 that has been opened for us.
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“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
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“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
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“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
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“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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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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“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
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“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
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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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“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
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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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