"What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds."

-- David Sobel

#Children Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Important Quotes

“I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.”

Source : Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
“Play for one another, and play the right way. The right way is believing in what's on your chest and not what's on your back.”
“Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.”
“When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!”

Source : "Benigni interviewed by Adrian Wootton". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.
“Stuff your brain with knowledge.”
“I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.”
“What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.”
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, â€˜Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,â€™ but itâ€™s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.”

Source : "The joys of solitude" by Phil Daoust, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2010.

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