#dre

We accepted their congratulations with good grace and proper modesty, but I felt then as I feel now, that I would have given my life to save Dresden for the world’s generations to come. That is how everyone should feel about every city on earth. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #education

Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress. ↗

— Clare B. Dunkle

#goblins #life

No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country, but I don't. Well, maybe I can get the family to a park two times a week, and out to the country once every two weeks. Maybe I have to send my child to a not-so-good school. Well, maybe we can read one or two good books together aloud. If you can't give them everything, give them something. ↗

— Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

#children #life-and-living #family

In life, nothing happens by accident. Set a goal, believe in it and go all-in to achieve it. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #project-e #life

Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#dorothy #hope #ignorance #innocence #philosophy

لا شيء يمكنه تغيير نمط الحياة أكثر من إنجاب طفل ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#children #life #novel #life

And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#dance #geisha #life

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies. ↗

— Vera B. Williams

#growing-up #life

One noći smo bili, rekao sam mu, ispred neke kuće na Florin bulevaru... Lynn je želela da hoda bosa, skinula je cipele i stavila ih u tašnu. Šetali smo tako ispred te kuće... Onda je ulicom prošla neka dečurlija sa maskama na licu. Vraćali su se sa nekog karnevala. Jedan od njih je prišao Lynn i upitao je: - Zbog čega vi hodate bosi? Zaustavili su se i napravili krug oko nas. Svi zajedno su imali godina koliko i mi. - Tako se brže hoda, odgovorila im je. - Stvarno?, rekli su svi u glas. - Da, rekla je Lynn, skineš cipele samo onda kad odlučiš kuda želiš da ideš. Kuda vi želite da idete? - U Diznilend, rekli su - Skinite onda cipele, rekla je Lynn. Bićete tamo za pet minuta. Klinci su stvarno poskidali cipele i pojurili ka Diznilendu. - Pogledaj ih, rekla mi je, žure da stignu svoj san. ↗

— Milan Oklopdžić

#life #dreams