"I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit."

-- Rose Kennedy

#Children Quotes #Broken Spirit Quotes #Risk Quotes

“The unlived life isn't worth examining.”
“When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.”
“When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come. That is the country that we are going to be celebrating. And those are the people that we are one with.”
“Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest.”

Source : "Oscars 2015: Best & Worst Political Moments" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.
“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”
“The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.”
“The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.”

Source : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.
“Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise.”

Source : Mona Van Duyn (2008). “Selected Poems”, p.189, Knopf

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