"Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules."

-- David Elkind

#Children Quotes #Independent Quotes #Self Quotes

“Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.”
“I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.”
“These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.”
“There's no way we can get to the bottom of Benghazi without David Petraeus.”
“One of the most popular narcotics to ease the pain of economy is cherishing the belief that better days are ahead. This is both efficacious and commendable, but it sometimes turns out to be a habit-forming drug. ... Things to which you look forward too long are almost invariably disappointing when you get them, and you might die first anyway.”
“In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.”
“To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign,”
“Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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