"At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning."

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Source : Shirley Ann Grau (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.53, LSU Press

Shirley Ann Grau

#Marriage Quotes #Ends Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others.”

Source : "Reconnecting with compassion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. November 2010.
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
“Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.”
“I just try to make sure every day that I'm blessed to live on this earth that I seize that day. I'm 25 and, you know, I know with each passing second, I'm getting older. So, I might well seize every single one of those seconds and make sure I'm doing as much as I possibly can in the community to know we worked hard for this and to instill that into everybody around me is truly my goal.”
“Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.”

Source : Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1916). “Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles Underlying the Organization and Administration of Public Education”
“The further you are from a problem, the smaller it gets.”
“Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome.”
“He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.”

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