"Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be."

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Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Daniel Keyes

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“Consent is really too low a bar. Hold out for enthusiasm.”
“The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.”

Source : Jeremy Collier (1698). “A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage; Together with the Sense of Antiquity Upon this Argument. 2. Ed”, p.5
“Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.”

Source : "Parenting for Everyone". Book by Simon Soloveychik, 1989.
“I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.”
“Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things.”
“I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.”
“The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.”

Source : Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.”

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