"A child must feel the flush of..." - Quote by Helen Keller
A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.
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“I never fight, except against difficulties.”
“The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.”
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”
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“Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.”
“Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?'”
“When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.”