"We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe."

-- Harold S. Kushner

#Children Quotes #Wonder Quotes #Failing Quotes

“Most people see what is, and never see what can be.”
“One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.”

Source : Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.5, Applewood Books
“I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.”
“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”
“Only the bold get to the top.”
“We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some degree, there's a sense of fear in America today, that if you say the wrong thing, what some people will consider what is wrong, if you step out of line, if you dissent, whether you be an entertainer, that somehow and some way this government or the forces to be will come down on you.”
“Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.”
“Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.”

Source : Anne Campbell (1993). “Men, women, and aggression”, Basic Books

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