One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Lao Tzu
Promise YourselfTo be so strong that nothingcan disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperityto every person you meet. To make all your friends feelthat there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everythingand make your optimism come...
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Christian D. Larson
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>It is the reason you are here on earth. You are...
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Louise Erdrich
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
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Vincent Van Gogh
It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid,...
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Coco Chanel
More Quotes By Michael Morpurgo
A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet.
You ever had a hickey? I want to give you a hickey."" Karl, we're not fourteen! "" Don't bloody care. I was in love with you when I was fourteen -- your neck owes me a hickey."( Karl & Elena)
At the sound of my name, those two worlds on either side of me collide, and my lips meet his. Time ceases to exist, and so, apparently does any logic that my mind is hanging on to. Logic would say that this is insane; every...
He took the pen and book from her and faltered.“ Just write anything — anything trivial that won't matter if it comes to pass.”“ Erm..” God, he was useless at this. Elena's hair turned blue.“ Hey! ”“ What?”“ I don't want blue hair! What the...
Maybe I should be still; accept my fate. But I have tasted freedom, known love — I have had choice and learnt what it is to have a human heart, not just a compliant one.
