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A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. ”
Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential. ”
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not. ”
To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots. ”
Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as a gift from the Almighty; that she has no greater mission than to rear them in light and truth, in understanding and love. ”
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire. ”
We must make working life more human. ”
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. ”
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. ”
Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness. ”