"The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present."

-- Simon Sebag-Montefiore

#Childhood Quotes #Privilege Quotes

“Today you may not understand me and tomorrow you all think as you thought as yesterday; but I believe in my mind that one day you all will understand me; though there is no my presence.”
“I believe that anyone who is serious and committed to pay the price of learning, discipline and taking the right actions in the right order and at the right times can achieve and become financially successful. In addition, having perseverance and relentless pursuit are great qualities ... that will help.”
“In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like to be skeptical of people, and to be taken advantage of, especially by your friends. That's a hard to pill to swallow, and we've been through that together, or watched each other go through it. It helps to have somebody that close to you who can relate. I can say with some confidence that I feel like Sky saved my life.”
“The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.”
“It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
“I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.”
“We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.”
“I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.”

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