Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. When you learn, teach, when you get, give. Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.Īt fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.Īny book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. It burns it all clean.Ĭourage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside youĪll men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.īitterness is like cancer. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!Īsk for what you want and be prepared to get it! History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Ī bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.Ĭhildren's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. I believe that every person is born with talent.Įverything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dancesĪ woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

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