Helen Adams Keller

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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."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."	Honesty, Truth
"Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature … Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."	Age, Anger, Fear
"I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound."	Darkness, Education, Happiness
"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision."	Miscellaneous
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."	Books, Friends, Men
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."	Miscellaneous
"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."	Ability
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."	Life, Success
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."	Courage, Happiness, Joy
"College isn't the place to go for ideas."	Miscellaneous
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Adversity
"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it."	Miscellaneous
"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."	Change, Time
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Duty
"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal."	Ambition, Art, Desires
"It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while."	Beauty, Happiness, Joy
"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."	Happiness, Joy
"One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates."	Age, Art, Honesty
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."	Miscellaneous
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Ability	Accomplishment	Achievement
Adversity	Age	Ambition
Anger	Art	Beauty
Books	Change	Character
Courage	Darkness	Desires
Difficulty	Duty	Education
Effort	Equality	Evil
Excellence	Experience	Fear
Friends	Goals	Good
Happiness	Honesty	Joy
Knowledge	Learning	Life
Light	Love	Men
Military	Miscellaneous	Monarchy
Nature	Patience	Power
School	Sin	Strength
Success	Teaching	Time
Truth	Wants	War
Wisdom	Writing