What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.
A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.
What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.
health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!
There's only one story, the story of your life.
The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.
True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart
The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.
Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
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