"Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Wise Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Children Quotes

“In the middle of my little mess, I forget how BIG I'm blessed!”

Source : Song: This Is The Stuff, Album: Hundred More Years, 2011
“It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic.”
“People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.”

Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub
“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.”

Source : "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Essay by James F. Cooper, 1838.
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
“The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.”
“If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.”

Source : Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.29, Cambridge University Press
“Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.”

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