"Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously."

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Source : Alfie Kohn (2006). “Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.81, ASCD

Alfie Kohn

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“That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free.”
“We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.”
“Mary found again in the adorable Host the adorable fruit of her womb... and began in the Cenacle her new maternity at the feet of Jesus in the Eucharist”
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
“Today anywhere you go you will find that this is a living legacy which is not only for now, not only for the next one hundred years, but for the coming two thousand years of the Age of Aquarius, when mankind will find shelter in the 3HO way of life. And then, you who are here now, who are just considered to be a handful of people, shall be considered as the most Divine.”
“A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.”
“Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.”

Source : Elizabeth George (2013). “Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart”, p.20, Harvest House Publishers
“If something bad can happen, it will.”

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