We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.
Helen Keller
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touch.
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Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind will transcend.
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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.
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