"Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen."

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Source : Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.148, Atlantic Books Ltd

Richard Louv

#Children Quotes #Moving Quotes #Self Confidence Quotes

“But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.”
“I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.”
“Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.”

Source : Adam Michnik (1998). “Letters from Freedom: Post–Cold War Realities and Perspectives”, p.27, Univ of California Press
“I always felt safe and protected. My dad is 6'6" and 280 pounds, so I basically felt protected, and I aspire to have my kids feel the same way.”
“When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter,”
“Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.”
“...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are 'silly' people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense.”
“Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I'm a Muslim and 'randomly' pull me aside for 'special treatment'. My sincere hope and prayer is that, on the Day of Judgment, my Lord's angels also recognize me as a Muslim and pull me aside for special treatment”

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