Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.

- Jacques Lusseyran

Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction the we a…

- Jacques Lusseyran

I could no longer afford to be jealous or unfriendly, because, as soon as I was, a bandage came down over my eyes, and I was bound hand and foot and …

- Jacques Lusseyran

People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I was making better use of them. …

- Jacques Lusseyran

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…

- Jacques Lusseyran