"Every optimist moves along with progress and..." - Quote by Helen Keller
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.
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“We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.”
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
“Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.”
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“Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.”
“I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of progress are real.”
“The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?”
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“We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.”
“The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.”
“I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.”