"All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated."

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Source : Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.65, Vintage

Augusten Burroughs

#Children Quotes #Should Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.”
“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.”
“Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.”
“Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.”
“This is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood.”
“No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.”
“You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?”
“We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.”

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