"...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance."

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Source : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.4, Macmillan

Ishmael Beah

#Children Quotes #Resilience Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait.”
“It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.”
“When you get to the NFL, the hits are a little bit harder. Thatâ€™s why I see the Chiropractor”
“We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.”
“What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.”
“The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.”
“The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.”

Source : Newcastle Medical Journal Vol. 12 (1932)
“The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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