"Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well."

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Aimee Mullins

#Adversity Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Care Quotes

“A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.”

Source : William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”
“Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.”
“I mean, even in these snow pants,check out my ass.”

Source : Jennifer Echols (2009). “The Ex Games”, p.182, Simon and Schuster
“Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?”
“One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.”
“Philippine President Joseph Estrada said he was saddened by the conviction. It's very unfortunate and what happened is saddening, ... If he really is innocent, then the day will come that his name will be cleared.”

Source : "Malaysia's Anwar found guilty on corruption charges". www.cnn.com. April 14, 1999.
“Forget college, forget everything else, just educate yourself, your world around you, everything around you.”

Source : Source: www.parlemag.com
“I feel like I've been lucky that I've never been put in a situation where I had to keep a serious secret. But what is true of me - and has to be true of everyone who's ever been in a family - is that our idealization of reality when we're children always has to fall apart. It's the narratives we didn't know about that pop up and redraw reality. You have to be able to integrate secrets into who you are. My family does not look now like it does when I was a kid. There was divorce. There were family secrets. There was definitely a difference between what I thought was true and what was true.”

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