Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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Helen KellerThe Open Door (1957)
About Helen Keller
Deafblind author, lecturer and advocate for people with disabilities. (1880-1968)
More from Helen Keller
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Optimism (1903)
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched but just felt in the heart.Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (1891)
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Keller's Journal (1938)
- Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.Optimism (1903)
- Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.As quoted by Joseph P. Lash in Helen and Teacher (1980)
- One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1896)
More quotes on courage
- We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.Seneca
- It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, but because we do not dare, things are difficult.Seneca
- For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.Epictetus
- The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.Rumi
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau
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