The best Quotes by Helen Keller

The best Quotes by Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old.

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.
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College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

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The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there's no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.
How long does it take to get from Louisiana to Alabama?
One Mississippi.
Leroy Brown: "Joe! That's your grandniece, that's kin to you!"
Joe Simmons: "Grandniece? What the hell is a grandniece? I'm from Alabama. After daughter, it don't damn matter."
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Alabamians don't tell you to wait before rushing a decision… they say "don't count your chickens before they hatch."
The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.
Canaan? Is your mom religious or just super into towns of Connecticut?
It's actually an Algonquin word, "Connecticut". Land of the long tidal river.
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They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Connecticut - and that's pretty much the same thing.
Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.
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Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
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There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Only when I’m dancing can I feel this free.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
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Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.
Elliot: "I'm not hiding, I was just looking for my... you know, the... I was looking for my dignity."
J.D.: "Did you find it?"
Elliot: "No. I must've left it at college."
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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.
Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5
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The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.
Emperor of China in Mulan
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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
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You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.
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Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.
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We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
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Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.
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A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.
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The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.
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Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.
Whoever said happines comes with sunshine, has never danced in the rain!
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Don't depend too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
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Nothing's gonna save our lifes, so... we're breathing borrowed air.
Will Newman in Five Feet Apart
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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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You don't build a great castle just all at once.

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