Helen Keller Quotes About Understanding
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Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.
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With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
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I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.
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When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.
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...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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