There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.
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God, Himself, is not secure, having given man dominion over His work.Helen Keller
One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
Helen Keller
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
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What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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