"To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Inspirational Quotes #Stars Quotes #Children Quotes

“every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son ...”
“Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. Itâ€™s the lack of limits they canâ€™t handle. Thatâ€™s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.”
“There is something electrifying about individuals with adventuresome spirits. They see life through a different lens. They almost emit electricity because nothing about them is dull or uninteresting or unplugged.”
“You have to trust yourself.”

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“Caring for others creates the spirit of a nation.”
“If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it.”
“Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dullness that they blunt the sense and corrupt the tastes of the still plastic human being. But I do wish that I had read no books at all till later - that I had lived with toys, and played in the open air. Children should not cull the fruits of reflection and observation early, but expand in the sun, and let thoughts come to them. They should not through books antedate their actual experiences ...”
“If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.”

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