"If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all."

-- Pearl S. Buck

#Children Quotes #Failure Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.”

Source : Ruth St. Denis (1969). “Ruth St. Denis, an unfinished life: an autobiography”, [Dance Horizons, 1969
“Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, sheâ€™d never even suspected that it could feel this way.”
“That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself.”
“We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.”
“Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.”
“He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. -But, then, lovers have a proverbial power of balancing inverted pyramids, going to sea in sieves, and successfully performing other kindred feats impossible to a faithless and unbelieving generation.”
“I was thinking about naming my child Kanye.”
“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”

Source : "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" by Alexander Ireland, (p. 94), 1884.

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