"Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours."

-- Kathryn Erskine

#Teaching Quotes #People Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.”
“I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.”

Source : "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.
“I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.”
“Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.”
“Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.”
“...the art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about...”
“Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.”
“When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind.”

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