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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. ...
by Helen Keller

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller

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We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller

 

The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

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

People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller

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.
- Helen Keller

As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller

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.
- Helen Keller

Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Helen Keller

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller

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

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller

Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit
of obedience to the laws of life.
- Helen Keller

It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass
is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller

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

If we spend the time we waste in sighing
for the perfect golden fruit
in fulfilling the conditions of its growth,
happiness will come, must come.
It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe.
If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well,
the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
- Helen Keller

The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller

True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller

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

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

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

All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller

Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller

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

The highest thinkers of the ages,
the seers of the tribes and the nations,
have been optimists.
- Helen Keller

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller

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

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world
shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller

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

Strike against war, for without you
no battles can be fought!
- Helen Keller

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors,
and no slave who has not had a king among his.
- Helen Keller

It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller

Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller


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