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Quotes that caught my heart.
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“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.”
Chinese proverb
Chinese proverb
Here Are 52 of My Favorite Quotes
I once read a beautiful teaching attributed simply to “a modern educator.” It read: “Try to see your child as a seed that came in a packet without a label. Your job is to provide the right environment and nutrients and to pull the weeds. You can’t decide what kind of flower you’ll get or in which season it will bloom.”
Wendy Mogel • The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
The word "attention" comes from Latin attendere - literally "to stretch toward." We're always orienting ourselves around something, whether we recognize it or not. What are we stretching toward, and what are we straining to avoid
Consider: When the Edge Gets Closer
The Writing Life - Annie Dillard
> One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to
