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Friendship was salvation, in this fragile world the only thing left that was not fragile. I promise you one can be drunk on friendship as well as on love.

— Jacques Lusseyran And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II (1998)

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Throw yourself into each moment as if it were the only one that really existed. Work and work hard.

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II (1998)

fear kills, and joy maintains life.

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II (1998)

I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults, who, at best, know only a fraction of what they say. The reason is simply that children know everything with their whole beings, while we know it only with our heads.

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II (1998)

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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