"Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is trying to think about us - something we want more than praise?"

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Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Grosz

#Children Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Hope does not disappoint.”
“Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to a new product, a new service. And that's always exciting.”

Source : Source: www.ncwit.org
“A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt [the Constitution]. In these honorable qualifications I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prejudices or attachments no separate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests; so, on another, that the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality.”
“No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.”
“I'm just so extremely lucky to have amazing Enchancers and all people around me...”
“Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.”
“Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.”

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“Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.”

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