"Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities."

-- Joan Aiken

#Teaching Quotes #Mean Quotes #Healing Quotes

“Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.”

Source : Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.169
“Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece”

Source : "Daft quotes of the week" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. April 07, 2008.
“In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,”

Source : Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.9, Open Road Media
“It is that dream we carry that something miraculous will happen that it must happen - that time will open that the heart will open that doors will open and that the rock face will open that springs will gush forth - that the dream will open and that one morning we'll glide in to a harbour we didn't know was there.”
“Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.”
“You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”
“It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right”

Source : "Trend Following: Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets". Book by Michael Covel, 2009.
“All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.”

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