Quotes of: Helen-keller Keyword

The human voice isn’t like water,” I shouted. “You can’t drown out somebody just by raising the level.” But it was useless. I felt like Noah preaching to a pack of Helen Kellers.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

When I smile, not only do my ears rise, but so does my listening ability. When my mouth goes all Helen Keller, you know I heard you.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I hear what you say in what you don’t say, you see, because I’m a Helen Keller kind of communicator. Love is just as visible as invisible.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both.

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Sou um sonhador, mal conheço a vida real, e um momento como este é tão raro de ser conseguido por mim, que me seria absolutamente impossível não continuar a evocá-lo sempre em meus sonhos.

White Nights

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

Karl Pilkington

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

Donna Leon

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Orison Swett Marden

Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.

Sherwin B. Nuland

When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overa...

Tom Rath

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the un...

Naomi Wolf

If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always t...

Naomi Wolf