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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.

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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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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Blindness separates people from things deafness separates people from people.
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No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
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This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
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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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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
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If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.
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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
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A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.
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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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I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.
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I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
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I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.
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