“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”

—  Helen Keller , book The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

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American author and political activist 1880–1968

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