(810 quotes found)
“Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori”
Howard Gardner
“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
W. H. Auden
“In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom”
Mary Ritter Beard
“If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.”
Dave Pelzer
“If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.”
William Bennett
“Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.”
Stefan Kanfer
“To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.”
Peace Pilgrim
“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
Elizabeth I
“There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it”
Robert Collier
“To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”
Muhammad Ali