"Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power."

-- Louisa May Alcott

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“Your voice is a very powerful weapon. When you are in tune with the cosmic breath of heaven and earth, your voice produces true sounds. Unify body, mind, and speech, and real techniques will emerge.”

Source : Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.7, Shambhala Publications
“I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out.”
“Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble”
“No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.”
“Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.”
“A promise unkept will take a man's mind.”

Source : Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.181, Granta Books
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

Source : "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.
“Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first; whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to establish reason for her distrust, or because she sought to free him from it; was as yet dark to her own heart. But at most times he occupied a great amount of her attention.”

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