"There is plenty of courage among us..." - Quote by Helen Keller
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
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“Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.”
“I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.”
“Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.”
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“Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.”
“And when you're alone there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.”
“Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.”
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“Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.”
“Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action”
“It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.”