Favorite quotes

"The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to."

-Marian Wright Edelman
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"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.​
 
"If you have to keep wondering where you stand with someone in a relationship, it’s time to stop standing and start walking."​
 
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
 
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)
 
"Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole." -Ethiopian proverb
 
hntr18 said:
"Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole." -Ethiopian proverb
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My beautiful mother (wise woman) would say:
"If you tell me a secret and only me, I will take it to my grave. But if you tell 10 other people and your secret comes back to you in the street, do not even think to come and ask me if I told."
 
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. -Leo Buscaglia, author (1924-1998)
 
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