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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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.
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
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.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.