"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."

-- Anne Sullivan Macy

#Motivational Quotes #Family Quotes #Success Quotes

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youâ€™re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

Source : Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.118, Egmont UK
“You must lose a fly to catch a trout.”
“People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a contract; but they have taken current suggestions in a dreamy and hypnotised way. They will not attend, they will not force themselves to attend, gravely to the gravest things.... they read everything in a vagrant, browsing fashion. They turn on the most serious subjects the holiday, seaside, newspaper habit of mind”
“I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.”
“Function influence but does not dictate form”
“Never trust a man whom you know to have acted like a scoundrel to others, whatever friendliness he may profess to feel towards yourself, however plausible he may be, or however kindly he may behave; be sure that, the moment he has anything to gain by so doing, he will "throw you over."”
“...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.”
“It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.”

Source : Nicole Jordan (2010). “To Tame a Dangerous Lord”, p.84, Ballantine Books

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