"He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Hands Quotes #Want Quotes #Walks Quotes

“I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.”

Source : Mary Downing Hahn (1983). “Daphne's Book”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.”
“But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.”
“Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.”

Source : John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”
“Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.”

Source : Daniel J. Siegel (2007). “The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being”, p.186, W. W. Norton & Company
“I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy.”
“I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.”

Source : Petronius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)”, p.164, Delphi Classics
“I was kind of scared of failing at acting.”

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