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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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.Helen Keller
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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Character is like the fire within the flint-latent until it is struck out of the stone. Observing the flint stone, who would think it contained the possibility of light And so it is with the dark experiences of life. And it is only us, individually, that decide what that darkness is, even without quite knowing the reasons for its being. And then we must learn to let light enter. When they are met with courage, they give out sparks of spiritual light.
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When one door to happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one which has been opened to us.
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