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Optimism that does not count the cost is like a house builded on sand.

If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep.

At the beginning I was only a little mass of possibilities. It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Joy deserted my heart, and for a long, long time I lived in doubt, anxiety and fear.

My world is built of touch-sensations, devoid of physical colour and sound; but without colour and sound it breathes and throbs with life.

Whatever moves me, whatever thrills me, is as a hand that touches me in the dark, and that touch is my reality.