"Children smile 400 times a day on average ... adults 15 times. Children laugh 150 times a day ... adults 6 times per day. Children play between 4-6 hours a day ... adults only 20 minutes a day. What's happened?"

-- Robert Holden

#Happiness Quotes #Children Quotes #Average Quotes

“Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.”
“Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.”
“And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.”
“He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.”
“Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.”
“Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]”
“Keep your eyes on the Master, because He knows things we do not know!”
“Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.”

Source : James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.317

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