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Helen Keller was a 19th-century American author and activist. Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.”
— Helen Keller
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“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.”
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“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”
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“Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole proces...”
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“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”
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“A bend in the road is not the end of the roadUnless you fail to make the turn.”
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