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What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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Autobiographer
Essayist
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Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
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Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
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Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
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The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.
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Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
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A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.
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When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
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Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.
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I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
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I hung about the dangerous frontier of guess, avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
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I could never stay long enough on the shore the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
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A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.
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We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
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