"Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child."

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Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”

Alexander Sutherland Neill

#Family Quotes #Children Quotes #Absence Quotes

“Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.”
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
“One of the difficulties in getting to the bottom of the poor prospects for retirement is that the policy and intellectual elites, including corporate leadership, who are dealing with this problem, rarely have the same difficulties as the great majority of middle-income Americans.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?”
“Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all manner of thoughts, feelings, memories, and ideas.”

Source : Daniel Tammet (2009). “Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.”
“Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?”

Source : James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”, p.161
“If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.”

Source : James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.128, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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