"Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, "There is joy i… - Helen Keller

"Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, "There is joy in 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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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American writer and social activist; an illness (possibly scarlet fever or meningitis) at the age of 19 months left her deaf and blind.

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Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, “There is joy in self-forgetfulness.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maya Angelou Hermann Hesse Rabindranath Tagore Ralph Waldo Emerson

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