"My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'"

-- Russell Wilson

#Morning Quotes #Dad Quotes #Balls Quotes

“No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.”
“Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.”
“I donâ€™t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. Iâ€™m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.”
“There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.”
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”
“And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.”

Source : Jojo Moyes (2012). “The Girl You Left Behind”, p.110, Penguin UK
“Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?”
“Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from.”

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