151 ordspråk av Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
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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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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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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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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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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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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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So long as I confine my activities to social services and the blind, the newspapers compliment me extravagantly, calling me an 'arch-priest of the sightless' and 'wonder woman'. But when I discuss poverty and the industrial system under which we live that is a different matter.
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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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