There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Our desires presage the capacities within us they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.
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Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Brimful of news, and stored with tales
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
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