"Our sport becomes not just what we do but an integral symbol-on all levels-of who we are."

-- Gloria Averbuch

#Sports Quotes #Levels Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children.”
“You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.”

Source : "Ziauddin Yousafzai: learn from Malala, use your own voice to demand rights" by Anna Leach, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2014.
“Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.”
“The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.”
“Styling is my form of painting. I can understand the process behind it, the being afraid to start, and the diving into it. I've learned not to be afraid of doing something that might not be right. If you don't try then you won't know.”
“I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!”
“We are not here to love just one person, we are here to love everything in existence.”
“the truly beneficent mind looks upon every child of sorrow as their relation, and entitled to their assistance ...”

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