Quotations from

Helen Keller

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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American deafblind author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.

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Quotes from Helen Keller

I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.

—Helen Keller

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

—Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

—Helen Keller

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

—Helen Keller

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding; I want
the understanding which bringeth peace.

—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

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

—Helen Keller

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

—Helen Keller

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.

—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

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

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