Helen Adams Keller

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"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
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."	Courage, Happiness, Joy
"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
"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
"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
"Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom."	Monarchy
"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
"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."	Knowledge, Life, Wisdom
"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."	Anger, Experience, Life
"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."	Evil, Good, Men
"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."	Desires, Wants
"Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."	Effort, Excellence
"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light! Give me light!' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour."	Art, Darkness, Education
"I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God."	Miscellaneous
"There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete."	Age, Courage
"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
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."	Miscellaneous
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."	Miscellaneous
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Difficulty	Duty	Education
Effort	Equality	Evil
Excellence	Experience	Fear
Friends	Goals	Good
Happiness	Honesty	Joy
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Light	Love	Men
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