Helen Keller Zitate auf Englisch

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It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

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

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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.

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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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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

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

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

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

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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

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

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

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

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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

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

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

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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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The highest result of education is tolerance.

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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.

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

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Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

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

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

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

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