{"author":"Helen Keller","author_id":"Helen+Keller","total_quotes":221,"quotes":[{"text":"Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["new-york-city"],"id":39,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"Everything has its wonders  even darkness and silence  and I learn  whatever state I may be in  therein to be content.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["acceptance"],"id":1807,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind  it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["helping","people"],"id":1879,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["heart","human-nature","mind","optimism"],"id":2060,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["hope"],"id":6713,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"The bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["bible","blindness","eternal","sight","temporal"],"id":6765,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["blind","self","person "],"id":10801,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["education","poetry"],"id":11905,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["welcome","me","grass "],"id":13210,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"A beam from the everlasting sun of God.Rude and unresponsive are the stones;Yet in them divine things lie concealed;I hear their imprisoned chant:–“We are fragments of the universe,Chips of the rock whereon God laid the foundation of the world:.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["big-bang-theory","creation"],"id":14646,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":221,"pages":23,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}