"Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies."

-- Greg Mortenson

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“No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.”

Source : Amos Alonzo Stagg, Wesley Winans Stout (1927). “Touchdown!: As told by Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg to Wesley Winans Stout”
“The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.”
“Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.”
“Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.”
“I think that a huge positive that's come out of me having successful competitions as an athlete has been that, through the years it's become less and less about personal victory and more about strengthening a platform for me to have a voice in the world and I could really talk about anything I wanted to and I've chosen to make my voice be heard and be recognized for some of the charities that I really care about and work very closely with.”

Source : Source: www.cyinterview.com
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”
“Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.”

Source : Wayne Muller (1993). “Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
“Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking ...”

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