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Helen Keller Quotes

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Helen Keller
“So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”
Helen Keller

Shannon L. Alder
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ.”
Shannon L. Alder

Helen Keller
“The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.”
Helen Keller, The World I Live In

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

James W. Loewen
“We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We don't want complicated icons. "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
James W. Loewen

“I sat taller, to suppress my impatience. It was infuriating, this waiting. I was thirty-seven years old. And like a child, an infant, really, I was at the mercy of others. Hour after hour of my life was spent waiting.”
Rosie Sultan, Helen Keller in Love

William  Gibson
“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
William Gibson, The Miracle Worker: A Play

Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“And wasn't that a great moment in baseball history," Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. "Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder catching.”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Fancy Pants

William  Gibson
“At another time she asked,'what is a soul?'
' No one knows,'I replied; 'but we know it is not the body, and it is that part of us which thinks and loves and hopes'...[and] is invisible...'But if I write what my soul thinks,'she said, 'then it will be visible, and the words will be its body.”
William Gibson, The Miracle Worker: A Play

Karen Quan
“I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller—and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz”
Karen Quan

Helen Keller
“Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...”
Helen Keller

Tamara Ireland Stone
“La vida es una aventura intrépida o no es nada.”
Tamara Ireland Stone

Jarod Kintz
“Dance critics all over the world have called my body moves, “Sculpturesque,� “As full of motion as a Rodin statue,� and “Like watching Helen Keller eat Jell-O with her elbows.� My dancing is so still and silent that it belongs to a foggy Ozarks morning.”
Jarod Kintz, The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

Jarod Kintz
“If you are the one person who has read my book, I'm sorry that it made you blind. For the full Helen Keller Experience, try the audiobook version.”
Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

George Bernard Shaw
“Semua yang kita lihat adalah sekilas, semua yang kita tahu adalah sepenggal, dan semua yang kita capai adalah mimpi, dalam cahaya cinta.”
George Bernard Shaw

Jarod Kintz
“Some people sing and dance. I do the opposite of that, and I think the only person who could truly appreciate my art is Helen Keller.”
Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

Basim Mahmoud
“لا تشغلوا بالكم بإخفاقات اليوم، إنَّما فكِّروا في النَّجاح الذي سوف يأتي غدًا. لقد انتدَبْتُم أنفسَكم لمهمَّةٍ شاقَّةٍ، لكنَّكم سوف تُفلِحون إن ثابَرتم، وسوف تجدون نشوةً في التغلُّبِ على المصاعب- لسوف تشعرون ببهجة في تسلُّقِ المسالك الوعِرة”
Basim Mahmoud