"Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

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Source : Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

Helen Keller

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“I hadnâ€™t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadnâ€™t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.”
“the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.”

Source : Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.85, Ipso Books
“Dating is probably the most important aspect of a single person's life.”
“I love flying so much. I even airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can't have emails go through. It's undisturbed.”
“A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.”

Source : "Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.
“I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I am without apologizing.”
“The things in our lives that die and can't be laid to rest hurt the most.”
“I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?”

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