"children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist."

-- Gail Sheehy

#Children Quotes #Self Quotes #Order Quotes

“The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.”
“I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.”

Source : "Film; A Young Trouper Who Plays Crazy as Well as Sexy" by Margy Rochlin, www.nytimes.com. September 30, 2001.
“Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.”

Source : Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice (1988). “Design metaphors”, Rizzoli International Publications
“I'm not really a girlie. I can be once in a while, but then I tend to fall off the heels.”
“Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.”
“Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.”
“I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.”

Source : "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.
“No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.”

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