"The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to."

-- Marian Wright Edelman

#Children Quotes

“Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.”
“But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?”
“There is no joy for someone who has no sorrow. There is no pleasure for the one who has no patience No bliss for someone with no misery and no rest for the one with no fatigue. When someone is a little tired, he has long rest. When he endures the difficulty of steadfastness for a time, that leads him to eternal life. All that the people of eternal bliss are in is steadfastness for a time.”
“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.”
“God has really blessed me. He could've allowed me to keep playing, but instead he saved my life.”
“When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.”
“He hurts me most who lavishly commends.”
“My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.”

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