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Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Don’t be afraid to speak from personal experience; in many ways, those vulnerable moments will be the key that unlocks a hardened heart.
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.
You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.
Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!
I’m terrified of heights, but I think there’s something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird’s-eye view of the world.
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.
You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.
The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
That old star that you been wishin' on is shining mighty bright, but it's the fire inside your heart that's gonna lead you to the light.
If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.
The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.
Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.
Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.