"Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Children Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Flower Quotes

“Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.”
“Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen”

Source : Literature in My Time (1933) ch. 22
“The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.”
“Don`t promise me forever, just love me day by day.”

Source : Song: Funny Little World, Album: Fairytales, 2009
“The only person to whom your love belongs is the one to whom your love belongs.”

Source : Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”
“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now â€” and we're going to try our hands at it.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (1924). “Main Street”, p.228, Lulu.com
“One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.”

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