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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather read more
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and read more
I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cleaned out his desk, when the two of them sat down to dinner that night he would say, ‘Boy was that desk a mess.’
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she read more
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. read more
It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, read more
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can read more
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
