"The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading."

-- Charlotte Mason

#Children Quotes #Reading Quotes #Common Quotes

“There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”
“Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.”
“When I'm on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven't gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.”
“We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all.”

Source : Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.333, Macmillan
“Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.”
“... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.”
“He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.”

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