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The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

Helen Keller

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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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Helen Adams Keller
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The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
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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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Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.
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The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
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I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
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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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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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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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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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For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.
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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
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What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
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Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.
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Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
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When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
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