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“When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.”
Source : Stedman Graham (1998). “You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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“I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!”
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“Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.”
Source : John Clare (1949). “Poems of John Clare's madness”
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“A dreamer born is a hero bred...”
Source : Song: Heroes And Heroines, Album: Hometown Girl, 1987
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“We want our children to become who they are- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn't mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make choices that are good for you. It is the power to choose to become what you are capable of becoming, to develop your unique potential by making choices that turn possibility into reality. It is the ability to make choices that actualize you. As often as not, maybe more often than not, this kind of freedom means doing what you do not want, doing what is uncomfortable or tiring or boring or annoying”
Source : Martine Millman, Gregory Millman (2008). “Homeschooling: A Family's Journey”, p.69, Penguin
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“I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.”
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“Years are like candy bars... We're paying more, but they're getting shorter.”
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“And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day .... The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it.”
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“I just want to see around beautiful things. I don't realise how much I miss out on just seeing beautiful scenery.”
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“I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sort of obligation to be polite and pleasant to yourself when nobody else is round ...”
Source : Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”
