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Helen Keller, a writer and activist, found herself mute, deaf and blind at the age of 19 months following an illness believed to have been scarlet fever.

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  • Security is mostly a superstition.
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  • Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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  • Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
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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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  • Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
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  • Optimism is the harmony between man's spirit and of God pronouncing His works good.
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  • Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
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  • It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
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  • I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
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  • I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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  • It gives me a deep, comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal."
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  • Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do.
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  • One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
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  • Sure, the world is full of trouble. But, as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world.
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  • When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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  • The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

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