Famous Quotes
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"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."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears"
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness."
Quote by -Hellen 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."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"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."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose"
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one "must "reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now."
Quote by -Hugh Hefner
"When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer."
Quote by -Hugh Hefner
"Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did."
Quote by -Hugh Hefner
"If a beautiful women expressed interest in me and my company, I don't really probe their motivations. Call me shallow."
Quote by -Hugh Hefner
"For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life."
Quote by -Hugh Hefner
"The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great."
Quote by -Hugh Hefner
"Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers."
Quote by -Hugh Hefner
"I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever."
Quote by -Hugh Hefner
"I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion."
Quote by -Hugh Hefner