"A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey."
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"I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring."
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"I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life."
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"History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression."
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"There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference."
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"The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities."
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"I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them."
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"So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!"
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"Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."
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"There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete."
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"The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens."
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"The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does."
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"Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness."
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"Your success and happiness lie in you."
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"The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?"
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"The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free."
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"It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference."
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"THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me"
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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 chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them."
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