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| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. | | Faith; Optimism | |
| People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. | | Uncategorized | |
| Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings. | | Science | |
| Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. | | Adventure; Security | |
| Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. | | Pity | |
| Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. | | Uncategorized | |
| So long as I confine my activities to social services and the blind, the newspapers compliment me extravagantly, calling me an 'arch-priest of the sightless' and 'wonder woman'. But when I discuss poverty and the industrial system under which we live that is a different matter. | | Uncategorized | |
| So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. | | Uncategorized | |
| Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! | | Uncategorized | |
| The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. | | Uncategorized | |
| The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart. | | Uncategorized | |
| The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor | | Bankers and banks; Country | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. | | Age | |
| The highest result of education is tolerance. | | Education | |
| The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. | | Experience | |
| The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way | | Opportunity | |
