"We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills."

-- Martin Seligman

#Children Quotes #Persistence Quotes #Skills Quotes

“I have no real tattoos. I wear my bruises and tons of scars as my tattoos.”

Source : "Kellan Lutz" byMark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.
“I think that British girls have a very eclectic and unique style.”
“Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.”
“I'm a pretty quiet person.”
“I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.”
“I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is”
“[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land.”
“You know, theres endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.”

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