"The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it."

-- John Locke

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“Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.”

Source : Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.377, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.”
“Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother”
“Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.”
“However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.”
“While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.”
“Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.”

Source : Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.46, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I don't know what my expectations are. It's like the word 'potential.' Those two words don't mean a whole lot to me. We can't please everybody. Certainly, we have to please ourselves first.”

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