"An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side."

-- Sara Sheridan

#Children Quotes #Aunt Quotes #Safe Haven Quotes

“I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.”

Source : 'Journal of a Disappointed Man' (1919) 23 Oct. 1910
“One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.”
“The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.”
“And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.”
“It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.”
“The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.”
“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”
“Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.”

Source : PBS Interview, www.pbs.org.

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