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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

Helen Keller

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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Linguist
Orator
Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
Writer
Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
Life
Dessert
Unpredictable
Short
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The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
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Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
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What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
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Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
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He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
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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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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulty.
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I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.
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I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
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Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
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I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
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The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'
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Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
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Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
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The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way
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If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.
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