From the Quote of the Week Files; July 1, 2013

Welcome everybody to the Quote of the Week!  Optimism is the theme of this week's quotes and we have 2 quotes by a woman who decided to make the most of her unchangeable circumstances of being deaf and blind and attributes her own accomplishments to her optimism.
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"Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they could be! Lacking this gift or that circumstance, they would be miserable. If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing."

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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

Helen Keller, from her book, Optimism 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8ch_H8pt9M8#at=69
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!