Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overco…

Helen Keller
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. ✨ Helen Keller (2012). Optimism, p.5, Simon and Schuster
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