I put my hand up and he took my hand. I'd never had a handshake like that one. He smiled down at me and I smiled back. That was the moment I knew for sure I was going to make it.


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HELEN ROWLAND
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is...
HELEN KELLER
The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the o...
HELEN ROWLAND
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity
HELEN SCHUCMAN
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we d...
HELEN KELLER
Call the bald man, Boy; make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man ...
HELEN ROWLAND
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
HELEN KELLER
When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seek...
HELEN SCHUCMAN
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
HELEN KELLER
Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowled...
HELEN KELLER
Dreams show you that you have the power...
HELEN SCHUCMAN
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn...
HELEN ROWLAND
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
HELEN KELLER
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the...
HELEN KELLER
What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction afte...
HELEN ROWLAND
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can...
HELEN KELLER
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman...
HELEN ROWLAND
I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging...
HELEN HUNT
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are mad...
HELEN ROWLAND
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
HELEN ROWLAND
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but...
HELEN ROWLAND
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nat...
HELEN ROWLAND
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whol...
HELEN KELLER
I know that faith made my life possible and that of many others like me... Reason hardly warranted A...
HELEN KELLER
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with th...
HELEN HAYES
Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
HELEN NIELSEN
Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
HELEN MACINNESS
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of ano...
HELEN KELLER
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ...
HELEN ROWLAND
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a r...
HELEN ROWLAND
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
HELEN KELLER
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was ...
HELEN KELLER
Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have live...
HELEN KELLER
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens th...
HELEN KELLER
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
HELEN KELLER
If you rest, you rust.
HELEN HAYES
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes ...
HELEN KELLER
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of...
HELEN ROWLAND
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature -- ...
HELEN ROWLAND
One man's folly is often another man's wife.
HELEN ROWLAND
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange ...
HELEN KELLER
I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppos...
HELEN KELLER
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
HELEN KELLER
We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the...
HELEN KELLER
I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing par...
HELEN ALFREDSSON
Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a ...
HELEN ROWLAND
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
HELEN ROWLAND