Helen Keller was born on this day.


Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880.

Famous American woman who, though deaf and blind, became a women’s suffragist and leftist political activist. She published twelve books and a number of articles over the course of her life and was a famous activist.

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“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us”


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“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to …”


“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.

– Barbara Kingsolver, writer

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“…If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” — Art of Quotation


“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, political figure, President of Liberia

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Success is . . . .


“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” — Bob Dylan, singer, songwriter, Nobel Prize, musician

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