“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Victor Hugo
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The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It ... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.
~ Marianne E. Neifert. Dr. Mom's Parenting Guide
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The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Dubois
"Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
-- Albert Einstein
"The future is purchased by the present."
-Samuel Johnson
"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
Martha Washington
"People who make decisions go to the top. Those who fail to make decisions go nowhere."
Bob Proctor
"I think that whenever soul is present, it’s because what you’re doing, whom you’re with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place or person or event, without ego and without judgment."
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal
"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."
Arthur Ashe
