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My motherโwith all the embarrassment and hurt that she caused me in my youthโended up giving me the drive and the fire I needed to be more and to do more.
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Vernon Davis (Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond)
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I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyoneโฆ
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Charlotte Eriksson
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A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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How to win in life:
1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses
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Germany Kent
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Aberjhani (Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black)
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Advice to my younger self:
1 Start where you are with what you have
2 Try not to hurt other people
3 Take more chances
4 If you fail, keep trying
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Germany Kent
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No one else knows exactly what the future holds for you, no one else knows what obstacles you've overcome to be where you are, so don't expect others to feel as passionate about your dreams as you do.
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Germany Kent
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Don't hang out with people who are:
Ungrateful
Unhelpful
Unruly
Unkindly
Unloving
Unambitious
Unmotivated
or make you feel...
Uncomfortable
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Germany Kent
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Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.
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Germany Kent
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In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate.
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Sigmund Freud (The Ego and the Id)
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It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don't have to do anything but trust the process, trust my story and enjoy the journey. It doesn't really matter who I've become by the finish line, the important things are the changes from this morning to when I fall asleep again, and how they happened, and who they happened with. An hour watching the stars, a coffee in the morning with someone beautiful, intelligent conversations at 5am while sharing the last cigarette. Taking trains to nowhere, walking hand in hand through foreign cities with someone you love. Oceans and poetry.
It was all very ordinary until my identity appeared, until my body and mind became one being. The day I saw the flowers and learned how to turn my daily struggles into the most extraordinary moments. Moments worth writing about. For so long I let my life slip through my fingers, like water.
I'm holding on to it now,
and I'm not letting go.
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Charlotte Eriksson (Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps)
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Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
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Charlotte Eriksson
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Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person.
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Germany Kent
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You might say โno, you will never do that, thatโs not you, not who I know, not who I thought you wereโ, and I will say "watch me".
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Charlotte Eriksson
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In the moment of decision, may you hear the voice of the Creator saying, โThis is right road, travel on it.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Don't let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you.
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
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Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.
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Germany Kent
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Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.
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Amit Kalantri
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You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.
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Amit Kalantri
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what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?
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Leo Tolstoy (Childhood, Boyhood, Youth)
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Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time than when the two best virtues -- innocent joy and the boundless desire for love -- were the only motives in life?
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Leo Tolstoy (Childhood, Boyhood, Youth)
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... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I could explain myself in a way that made sense and then maybe one day, one day, someone out there would hear and recognise her or himself and I could let them know that they are not alone. Just like that song I had on repeat for several nights as I walked lonely on empty streets, let me know that I was not
alone
and thatโs how it starts.
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Charlotte Eriksson
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We can't and don't know what others are thinking. We can't and don't know what motivations people have for doing the things they do. Ever. Not entirely. This was my terrifying youthful epiphany. We just never really know anyone. I don't. Neither do you.
It's amazing that relationships can form and last under the constraints of never fully knowing. Never knowing for sure what the other person is thinking, never knowing for sure who the other person is. We can't do whatever we want. There are ways we have to act. There are things we have to say.
But we can think whatever we want.
Anyone can think anything. Thoughts are the only reality. It's true, I'm sure of it now. Thoughts are never faked or bluffed. This simple realization has stayed with me. It has bothered me for years and years. It still does.
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Iain Reid (I'm Thinking of Ending Things)
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Dear Young Black Males, Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are. Always believe in yourself, even if nobody else does. Strive to be self-motivated!
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Stephanie Lahart
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You're the beginning,
You're the ending,
You're the one who rides the waves of my emotions,
One who makes me compassionate,
One who's the light of my dark self,
I'll be the one always testing your patience,
I'll be the one always annoying you,
I'll be the one always hurting you,
Why?
Because I know you'll always be there to bear the jokes I crack,
To tolerate my inside chaos,
To see my vulnerable self,
To misinterpreting your actions & intentions,
I'll always be hardcore to deal with,
Taking you over the edge,
Because that's what I only know.
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Hareem Ch (Hankering for Tranquility)
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Itโs called โbeing an artistโ for a reason; itโs something YOU ARE. Itโs how you live. Itโs WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.
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Charlotte Eriksson
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Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.
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Chris Jirika
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There is genuine Hip Hop; a message that connects, rocks a crowd, and motivates a people and then there is what is left... instead of Hip Hop we have Hip replacement.
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Johnnie Dent Jr.
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When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done.
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Amit Kalantri
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If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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Soon became convinced I was right and undertook the task with all the fire and boundless confidence of youth.
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Nikola Tesla (My Inventions)
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The woman afflicted by the need for adoration cannot have a free moment of real joy away from her obsession with self; she is slave to the never-ending quest for youth and beauty and social acceptance.
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Brendon Burchard (The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power)
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Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you post online can be taken out of context if you are not careful in the way your message is delivered.
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Germany Kent
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Don't feel bad if your youth cannot be joyful, but at least make it useful.
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Amit Kalantri
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Change is a contact sport.
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Romal J. Tune
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Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively.
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Amit Kalantri
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Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.
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Amit Kalantri
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Ministry, then, is not about "using" relationships to get individuals to accept a "third thing," whether that be conservative politics, moral behaviors or even the gospel message. Rather, ministry is about connection, one to another, about sharing in suffering and joy, about persons meeting persons with no pretense or secret motives. It is about shared life, confessing Christ not outside the relationship but within it. This, I learned, was living the gospel.
I
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Andrew Root (Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation)
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There are three youthful behaviors that together make up what has come to be known as the homicidal triad: enuresis (bed-wetting) beyond an appropriate age, fire starting, and cruelty to animals and/or smaller children.
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John E. Douglas (The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals)
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Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.
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Onyi Anyado
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When I was a child, I thought like a child.
When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Age is only a number. Keep an active life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted them, the influences that warped them. And when you forgot yourself and saw the others with pitying comprehension, saw their tortured motives, a white, healing peace descended upon you. Your betrayal became an impersonal one, like a bridge giving way when you crossed it, lightning, a motor collision--you were in the way and you were damaged--that was all. It wasn't meant for you. When you understood, you were released into a new freedom and wisdom.
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Mary Schumann (Strong Enchantments)
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I didn't want to be educated. It wasn't the right time of my life for concentration, it really wasn't. The spirit of the age among the people I knew manifested itself as general drift and idleness. We didn't want money. What for? We could get by, living off parents, friends or the State And if we were going to be bored, and we were usually bored, rarely being self-motivated, we could at least be bored on our own terms, lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine. I didn't want to work in a place where I couldn't wear my fur coat.
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Hanif Kureishi (The Buddha of Suburbia)
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We canโt and donโt know what others are thinking. We canโt and donโt know what motivations people have for doing the things they do. Ever. Not entirely. This was my terrifying, youthful epiphany. We just never really know anyone. I donโt. Neither do you.
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Iain Reid (I'm Thinking of Ending Things)
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They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.
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COMPTON GAGE
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The most important key to bettering yourself - is just that "yourself" - (g swiss)
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G Swiss
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Do all the work you can in your youthful days while you have the greatest strength.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Nobody can bring you a change. You have to want to change.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Her character became a label based on what she wore
The girl in the mini skirt soon began to be called a whore
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Manali Manan Desai (A Rustic Mind)
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the fact of not being understood by others had been my sole source of pride since my early youth, and I had not the slightest impulse to express myself in such a way that I might be understood. When I did try to clarify my thoughts and actions, I did so with no consideration whatsoever. I do not know whether or not this was because I wanted to understand myself. Such a motive is in accord with a person's real character and comes automatically to form a bridge between himself and others
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Yukio Mishima (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion)
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Be your best self and do not imitate anyone else. Find your strengths. They are your talents. They will make you smile and cause you to real joy on the inside.
Donโt listen to those who ridicule the choices you make or the dreams you share. Let no one despise your youth. As Og Mandino explained in The Greatest Salesman in the World, โExperience is overrated, usually by old men who nod wisely and speak stupidly.โ Create your own experiences. And know that you are creating memories for a lifetime.
Life is not about finding yourself; it is about creating yourself.
You have to take chances to make your dreams reality. Face your fears head-on and move rapidly. Donโt be afraid of making mistakes. Make lots of them! Your odds for success will increase with the number of decisions you make.
Have patience with your dreams and the expectations you have for others. Be impatient with yourself daily. Live as if this is your last day. Say โI love youโ to all those who matter. Know that everyone matters.
You must play full-out right now. Sit up, hold your head high. Breathe deeply. Lift your chest up. Stand up straight and with confidence. Dust yourself off. Stop being a party pooper in your own life. Smile. A bigger noticeable smile. Start acting happy. Yes, you act first. I promise the feeling of happiness will soon follow.
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Robert Smith
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Let [the youth] be directed to something better than display, ambition, or self-indulgence. Bring them in contact with truer beauty, with loftier principles, and with nobler lives. Lead them to behold the One โaltogether lovely.
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Ellen Gould White (Stewardship: Motives of the Heart : Ellen G. White Notes 1Q 2018)
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Most kids who don't feel enough love and nurturance carry around this kind of inner rage- a rage that often lasts throughout adulthood. The people who should have cared for them didn't. The lesson to take away: All people are shit. This is why troubled youth walk around with chips on their shoulders and why they are so hard to help.
Early on they learn that people can't be trusted. They often spend the rest of their lives embracing this damaging belief. Seeing the world through shit-coloured glasses, they are hypersensitive to every possible slight or judgement, and they believe anyone friendly or kind must have an ulterior motive.
Despite all this, wounded people desperately want and need love. But, terrified to trust, they constantly do thing to test and sabotage their relationships. This push-pull dance is well-known to anyone who's ever been close to a victim of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Those who suffer from BPD are hypersensitive to perceived slights from others and can grow notoriously hostile when they feel dissed....
For survivors of abuse, who you trust is a matter of survival. Its black and white. There can be no apologies. There can be no gray. There are no exceptions.-Scared Selfless
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Michelle Stevens
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Owing to the shape of a bell curve, the education system is geared to the mean. Unfortunately, that kind of education is virtually calculated to bore and alienate gifted minds. But instead of making exceptions where it would do the most good, the educational bureaucracy often prefers not to be bothered.
In my case, for example, much of the schooling to which I was subjected was probably worse than nothing. It consisted not of real education, but of repetition and oppressive socialization (entirely superfluous given the dose of oppression I was getting away from school). Had I been left alone, preferably with access to a good library and a minimal amount of high-quality instruction, I would at least have been free to learn without useless distractions and gratuitous indoctrination. But alas, no such luck.
Letโs try to break the problem down a bit. The education system [โฆ] is committed to a warm and fuzzy but scientifically counterfactual form of egalitarianism which attributes all intellectual differences to environmental factors rather than biology, implying that the so-called 'gifted' are just pampered brats who, unless their parents can afford private schooling, should atone for their undeserved good fortune by staying behind and enriching the classroom environments of less privileged students.
This approach may appear admirable, but its effects on our educational and intellectual standards, and all that depends on them, have already proven to be overwhelmingly negative. This clearly betrays an ulterior motive, suggesting that it has more to do with social engineering than education. There is an obvious difference between saying that poor students have all of the human dignity and basic rights of better students, and saying that there are no inherent educationally and socially relevant differences among students. The first statement makes sense, while the second does not.
The gifted population accounts for a very large part of the worldโs intellectual resources. As such, they can obviously be put to better use than smoothing the ruffled feathers of average or below-average students and their parents by decorating classroom environments which prevent the gifted from learning at their natural pace. The higher we go on the scale of intellectual brilliance โ and weโre not necessarily talking just about IQ โ the less support is offered by the education system, yet the more likely are conceptual syntheses and grand intellectual achievements of the kind seldom produced by any group of markedly less intelligent people. In some cases, the education system is discouraging or blocking such achievements, and thus cheating humanity of their benefits.
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Christopher Michael Langan
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Joan of Arcโs feminine magnetism had an overwhelming motivating power over the demoralized men โ and nation โ of her day. It is unlikely that even a handsome young man in the vigor of his youth could have had the same effect. Joanโs feminine beauty and virtue simply won over the hearts of her countrymen.
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Peter Darcy (The 7 Leadership Virtues of Joan of Arc (Life Changing Classic, Volume 32) (Life-Changing Classic))
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That was what happened when youthful confessions were punished without mercy, when the confessions were not seen as a wish to tell the truth, and therefore were not deemed praiseworthy. So she had learned not to confess; instead, she had learned to keep secrets so well that she hardly knew even her own motives.
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Colleen McCullough (The Touch)
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His face would have had little to recommend it except youth, were it not for an expression that seldom failed to win upon those who had leisure to examine it, and to yield to the feeling of confidence it created. This expression was simply that of guileless truth, sustained by an earnestness of purpose, and a sincerity of feeling, that rendered it remarkable. At times this air of integrity seemed to be so simple as to awaken the suspicion of a want of the usual means to discriminate between artifice and truth, but few came in serious contact with the man, without losing this distrust in respect for his opinions and motives.
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James Fenimore Cooper (The Deerslayer)
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A man in his early prime contemplates on life, shattered by the distortions of society he gazes ahead in time. There were vows of happiness and fairy tale beginnings. Now there is nothing of that sort; now there is nothing that started the tales so bright. It's after all this while that he understands why fairy tales begin with 'once upon a time'...
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Adhish Mazumder
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You are not truly yourself until you no longer define yourself in othersโ terms.
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Shawn Davis (The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions)
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What do you mean by "Back in my day?" Today is your day. So is tomorrow.
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Nate Hamon
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Let age be your motivator, not your excuse.
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Nate Hamon
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Persistence refines the miserable piece of carbon in you into the purest form of diamond.
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Tobi Delly (25 Things you Must Have Before age 25)
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You project a confident image through good body posture.
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Cindy Ann Peterson (My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today)
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We are not victims of our past, we are victors of our future
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Tina Mitchell
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Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.
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Amit Kalantri
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You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.
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Amit Kalantri
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Enjoy without injury, live without loss.
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Amit Kalantri
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Donโt wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.
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Nana Awere Damoah (I Speak of Ghana)
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Itโs amazing how when we were young we wanted to know what it felt like to be older and when we are older we want the feeling of being younger again.
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DeWayne Owens
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Exercise daily to keep an active life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Iโm a rebel in the game of chance
I have learned to enjoy the spiritual dance
I have yearned to speak the language of truth
I have the power to inspire our youth
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Aida Mandic (A Candid Aim)
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You are destiny to be;
Rebuilder of great home.
Restorer of mighty nation.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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The gift of youth is a graceful strength.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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In the woods, is perpetual youth.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nature: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Philosophical Reflections on the Natural World (Best Motivational Books for Personal Development (Design Your Life)))
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Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There is no denying that these activities contributed to the economy of farm households, but a further fact is that they were pleasures; they were wilderness pleasures, not greatly different from the pleasures pursued by conservationists and wilderness lovers. As I was always aware, my friends the coon hunters were not motivated just by the wish to tree coons and listen to hounds and listen to each other, all of which were sufficiently attractive; they were coon hunters also because they wanted to be afoot in the woods at night. Most of the farmers I have known, and certainly the most interesting ones, have had the capacity to ramble about outdoors for the mere happiness of it, alert to the doings of the creatures, amused by the sight of a fox catching grasshoppers, or by the puzzle of wild tracks in the snow.
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Wendell Berry (Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food)
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He was a stranger here. The people who might remember him would certainly not welcome him. His old gang had cast him out, along with all of the former friends and parents. The suburban landscape of hypocrisy, so hated in his youth, beheld again and with it, old feelings that motivated him through life more than he would ever admit. Every turning point in life, already decided by all the events here
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Jaime Allison Parker (The Delta Highway)
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we have faith to sit in a chair, and continue to believe in its foundation that holds us up. If we have faith in God, the foundation will hold us both up, so its our decision to take the seat and trust him.
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Trae R. Miller
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We can't and don't know what others are thinking. We can't and don't know what motivations people have for doing the things they do. Ever. Not entirely. This was terrifying, youthful epiphany. We just never really know anyone. I don't. Neither do you.
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Iain Reid (I'm Thinking of Ending Things)
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Star
up high,
oh, so bright,
can you see me
in the deep, dark night?
Tell me what you wish for,
star, I want to know the truth.
Your lone and far off state I feel;
we are as twins in this way since youth.
My heart can sense how you long for a friend.
Or is it my sole wish that with yours doth blend?
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year)
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Sad generation is confused. Why they have to do wrong things, unnatural things. They have to be ill-mannered, uncultured, disrespectful, arrogant and have no morals and justified it by saying. They are practicing their freedom and rights. They are brave, bold, strong, confident , and have self esteem.
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D.J. Kyos
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Most kids who don't feel enough love and nurturance carry around this kind of inner rage- a rage that often lasts throughout adulthood. The people who should have cared for them didn't. The lesson to take away: All people are shit. This is why troubled youth walk around with chips on their shoulders and why they are so hard to help.
Early on they learn that people can't be trusted. They often spend the rest of their lives embracing this damaging belief. Seeing the world through shit-coloured glasses, they are hypersensitive to every possible slight or judgement, and they believe anyone friendly or kind must have an ulterior motive.
Despite all this, wounded people desperately want and need love. But, terrified to trust, they constantly do things to test and sabotage their relationships. This push-pull dance is well-known to anyone who's ever been close to a victim of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Those who suffer from BPD are hypersensitive to perceived slights from others and can grow notoriously hostile when they feel dissed....
For survivors of abuse, who you trust is a matter of survival. Its black and white. There can be no apologies. There can be no gray. There are no exceptions.-Scared Selfless
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Michelle Stevens
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Arrogance convinced me that by sheer determination, I could conquer helplessness itself. Stubborn and foolish youth, I must admit, for when I look back on those years now, I see quite clearly that rarely did I stand alone. Always there were friends, true and dear, lending me support even when I believed I did not want it, and even when I did not realize they were doing it.
...These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration.
These were the friends who gave me my life.
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R.A. Salvatore
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Accomplishments donโt just fall in your lap, they first demand a great deal from youโthings like study and learning; intentional, arduous work; steadfast determination; ongoing attempts despite failures; personal sweat, blood, tears; and moments of exhaustion. Accomplishments donโt just fall in your lap, the demand actual growth.
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year)
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The baneful consequences which flow from inattention to health during infancy, and youth, extend further than is supposed, dependence of body naturally produces dependence of mind; and how can she be a good wife or mother, the greater part of whose time is employed to guard against or endure sickness; nor can it be expected, that a woman will resolutely endeavour to strengthen her constitution and abstain from enervating indulgences, if artificial notions of beauty, and false descriptions of sensibility, have been early entangled with her motives of action. Most men are sometimes obliged to bear with bodily inconveniences, and to endure, occasionally, the inclemency of the elements; but genteel women are, literally speaking, slaves to their bodies, and glory in their subjection.
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Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman)
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Millions of people across the world live in a state of acute environmental crises caused by the lack of access to safe and usable water resources, because of natural disasters, socio-economic conditions, wars and conflicts. At Green the Gene, we are developing extremely simple yet highly technology and data intensive solutions tailored to address extremely specific problems faced by communities.
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Madhav Datt
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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
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Benjamin Franklin (Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical)
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This ritual use of constant surveillance is a vivid example of the real motivation behind the myth: Female thinness and youth are not in themselves next to godliness in this culture. Society really doesn't care about women's appearance per se. What genuinely matters is that women remain willing to let others tell them what they can and cannot have. Women are watched, in other words, not to make sure that they will "be good," but to make sure that they will know they are being watched.
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Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth)
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But really, ma'am, I think it would be very hard upon younger sisters, that they should not have their share of society and amusement, because the elder may not have the means or inclination to marry early. The last-born has as good a right to the pleasures of youth as the first. And to be kept back on such a motive! I think it would not be very likely to promote sisterly affection or delicacy of mind."
"Upon my word," said her ladyship, "you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person...
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Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
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Dear Young Black Malesโฆ I encourage you to upgrade your thinking! Read books, articles, quotes, and other materials that will enhance your thinking and mindset. Embrace literature that will help propel you to greatness! Read information that will educate, empower, inspire, and motivate you. If you donโt understand the definition of a word, look it up in a dictionary. Broaden your vocabulary by utilizing the thesaurus, too. Knowledge is power, so make sure that you fill your mind with things that make you more and more powerful every day!
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Stephanie Lahart
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Imaginary Lives Imaginary Lives is a thought experiment I have adapted from two important career-change thinkers, Julia Cameron and John Williams, which aims to take your ideas a stage closer towards specific job options.55 Itโs simple but potentially powerful. โข Imagine five parallel universes, in each of which you could have a whole year off to pursue absolutely any career you desired. Now think of five different jobs you might want to try out in each of these universes. Be bold in your thinking, have fun with your ideas and your multiple selves. Your five choices might be food photographer, member of parliament, tai chi instructor, social entrepreneur running a youth education project, and wide-achieving Renaissance generalist. One person I know who did this activity โ a documentary film maker who was having doubts about her career โ listed massage therapist, sculptor, cellist, screen-play writer, and owner of her own bar on a tiny, old-fashioned Canarian island. Now come back down to earth and look hard at your five choices. Write down what it is about them that attracts you. Then look at them again, and think about this question: โข How does each career measure up against the two motivations in the previous activity that you chose to prioritize in the future? If you decided, for instance, that you want a combination of making a difference and high status, check whether your five imaginary careers might provide them. The point is to help you think more deeply about exactly what you are looking for in a career, the kind of experiences that you truly desire.
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Roman Krznaric (How to Find Fulfilling Work (The School of Life))
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9. HUMAN RIGHTS [70:9.1] Nature confers no rights on man, only life and a world in which to live it. Nature does not even confer the right to live, as might be deduced by considering what would likely happen if an unarmed man met a hungry tiger face to face in the primitive forest. Society's prime gift to man is security. [70:9.2] Gradually society asserted its rights and, at the present time, they are Assurance of food supply. Military defenseโsecurity through preparedness. Internal peace preservationโprevention of personal violence and social disorder. Sex controlโmarriage, the family institution. Propertyโthe right to own. Fostering of individual and group competition. Provision for educating and training youth. Promotion of trade and commerceโindustrial development. Improvement of labor conditions and rewards. The guarantee of the freedom of religious practices to the end that all of these other social activities may be exalted by becoming spiritually motivated.
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Urantia Foundation (The Urantia Book)
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I would advise those who think that self-help is the answer to familiarize themselves with the long history of such efforts in the Negro community, and to consider why so many foundered on the shoals of ghetto life. It goes without saying that any effort to combat demoralization and apathy is desirable, but we must understand that demoralization in the Negro community is largely a common-sense response to an objective reality. Negro youths have no need of statistics to perceive, fairly accurately, what their odds are in American society. Indeed, from the point of view of motivation, some of the healthiest Negro youngsters I know are juvenile delinquents. Vigorously pursuing the American dream of material acquisition and status, yet finding the conventional means of attaining it blocked off, they do not yield to defeatism but resort to illegal (and often ingenious) methods.... If Negroes are to be persuaded that the conventional path (school, work, etc.) is superior, we had better provide evidence which is now sorely lacking.
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Bayard Rustin (Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin)
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Have you ever wanted something very badly-something that was within your grasp-and yet you were afraid to reach out for it?
That night he had answered no. Tonight he would have said yes. Among other things, he wanted to know where she was; a month ago heโd told himself it was because he wanted the divorce petition served. Tonight he was too exhausted from his long internal battle to bother lying to himself anymore. He wanted to know where she was because he needed to know. His grandfather claimed not to know; his uncle and Alexandra both know, but theyโd both refused to tell him, and he hadnโt pressed them.
Wearily, Ian leaned his head against the back of his chair and closed his eyes, but he wouldnโt sleep, and he knew it, even though it was three oโclock in the morning. He never slept anymore unless heโd either had a day of grueling physical activity or drunk enough brandy to knock himself out. And even when he did, he laid awake, wanting her, and knowing-because sheโd told him-that she was somewhere out there, lying awake, wanting him.
A faint smile touched his lips as he remembered her standing in the witness box, looking heartbreakingly young and beautiful, first trying logically to explain to everyone what had happened-and when that failed, playing the part of an incorrigible henwit. Ian chuckled, as heโd been doing whenever he thought of her that day. Only Elizabeth would have dared to take on the entire House of Lords-and when she couldnโt sway them with intelligent logic, she had changed tack and used their own stupidity and arrogance to defeat them. If he hadnโt felt so furious and betrayed that day, heโd have stood up and given her the applause she deserved! It was exactly the same tactic sheโd used the night heโd been accused of cheating at cards. When she couldnโt convince Everly to withdraw from the duel because Ian was innocent, sheโd turned on the hapless youth and outrageously taken him to task because heโd already engaged himself to her the next day.
Despite his accusation that her performance in the House of Lords had been motivated by self-interest, he knew it hadnโt. Sheโd come to save him, she thought, from hanging.
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Judith McNaught (Almost Heaven (Sequels, #3))
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The contrast to his life of subjection at Donnaz; the precocious initiation into motives that tainted the very fount of filial piety; the taste of this mingled draught of adulation and disillusionment, might have perverted a nature more self-centred than his. From this perversion, and from many subsequent perils he was saved by a kind of imaginative sympathy, a wondering joy in the mere spectacle of life, that tinged his most personal impressions with a streak of the philosophic temper. If this trait did not save him from sorrow, it at least lifted him above pettiness; if it could not solve the difficulties of life it could arm him to endure them. It was the best gift of the past from which he sprang; but it was blent with another quality, a deep moral curiosity that ennobled his sensuous enjoyment of the outward show of life; and these elements were already tending in him, as in countless youths of his generation, to the formation of a new spirit, the spirit that was to destroy one world without surviving to create another. Of all this none could have been less conscious than the lad
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Edith Wharton (Edith Wharton: Collection of 115 Works with analysis and historical background (Annotated and Illustrated) (Annotated Classics))
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Sociologist Barry Glassner (1999) has documented many of the biases introduced by โIf it bleeds, it leadsโ news reporting, and by the strategic efforts of special interest groups to control the agenda of public fear of crime, disease, and other hazards. Is an increase of approximately 700 incidents in 50 states over 7 years an โepidemicโ of road rage? Is it conceivable that there is (or ever was) a crisis in childrenโs day care stemming from predatory satanic cults? In 1994, a research team funded by the U.S. government spent 4 years and $750,000 to reach the conclusion that the myth of satanic conspiracies in day care centers was totally unfounded; not a single verified instance was found (Goodman, Qin, Bottoms, & Shaver, 1994; Nathan & Snedeker, 1995). Are automatic-weapon-toting high school students really the first priority in youth safety? (In 1999, approximately 2,000 school-aged children were identified as murder victims; only 26 of those died in school settings, 14 of them in one tragic incident at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.) The anthropologist Mary Douglas (Douglas & Wildavsky, 1982) pointed out that every culture has a store of exaggerated horrors, many of them promoted by special interest factions or to defend cultural ideologies. For example, impure water had been a hazard in 14th-century Europe, but only after Jews were accused of poisoning wells did the citizenry become preoccupied with it as a major problem.
But the original news reports are not always ill-motivated. We all tend to code and mention characteristics that are unusual (that occur infrequently). [...] The result is that the frequencies of these distinctive characteristics, among the class of people considered, tend to be overestimated.
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Reid Hastie (Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making)
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This book consists not only of my stories of mistakes, rather itโs all our stories of mistakes and heart aches. Itโs the plight of all of us who were rebelling, and kicking against the social messes we found ourselves in. Yet there are so many others who are not alive today, and I feel obligated in not allowing the lessons of their mistakes to lie in the grave with them.
It was the United States Senator, Al Franken, who stated, โMistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.โ Iโm revealing all of those mistakes and more, sadly a lot of them are fatal. In an attempt to have these real life lessons obtained in blood, prevent the blood-shedding of so many others. These stories are ones that young people can understand and identify with. While at the same time empowering them, to make better decisions about their choice of friends, the proper use of their time and how one wrong move can be fatal. I guess the major question that we all have to ask ourselves at the end of the day would be: how could I and so many others have been prevented from becoming monsters? You be the judge.
I now extend my hand to you, and personally invite you to take a journey with me into the heartlands of innocence to menacing, from a youngster to a monster, and the making of a predator. I will safely walk you down the deserted and darkened street corners which were once my world of crime, gang violence and senseless murders.
Itโs a different world unto itself, one which could only be observed up close by invitation only. Together we will learn the motivation behind hard-core gangsters, and explore the minds of cold-blooded murderers. You will discover the way they think about their own lives, and why they are so remorseless about the taking of anotherโs life. So, if you will, please journey with me as we discover together how the fight of our lives were wrapped up in our fathers.
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Drexel Deal (The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father (The Fight of My Life is Wrapped in My Father Book 1))
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Aging with all my self.
To my younger self,
I'm not twenty-something anymore, and in just a month's time I shall walk into another decade of a whole new experience. I don't have youth on my side, but I have a heart of Life enlightened with the very spirit of Life itself, something that draws youth on its lap. Wisdom has been churned out from the mistakes and failures, and lessons have been disguised as soul fillers, and gratitude dances on my lips, waving my heart with a bunch of memories. Perhaps, the memories have been earned. Earned at the cost of those lost turns, cold betrayals, numb tears, forced smiles and a voyage walking through a rainbow of mad jest of Life. With that being said, I wouldn't go back and change even a bit. Through all of that heartache, I have unearthed a heart that is resilient, and pliant, I have met a soul that is strong and loving, and deeper than any thousand paged novel I could get lost in. I have come across beautiful souls in beautiful lands, I have soaked in different cultures and walked my way through observing hearts, listening to stories that run beyond time and tide. I have grown with each one of those smiles and tears, the sands of places that mark my soles make my soul whole in a strange but palpable tune. I have got lost in pathways and met a gypsy soul wandering in the space of infinite time, weaving moments through Life to take back a bunch of images and experiences from a journey called Life. My story has been filled with pages of ups and downs and my cup of Life has had several toxic turns, but in all of that, I have grown, along with one or two grey hair. My pages have often tasted Life in the most happy hue from voyages and dreams that kept overlapping and smiling across the tips of Time. And all of this, has helped me to nurture and nourish an invincible desire to live a life, with a passion no longer on hold, but a heart that is free forever to fly in the tunes of its own whisper.
So as I open another day, walking closer to close the page of this twenty-something, I wear a smile that the youth of wisdom paints on my heart. And age, with all the grace that only Age can bring, while loving, forgiving and embracing my younger self in every air of Time.
Love,
a soul aging gracefully with the Smile of Life.
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Debatrayee Banerjee
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Responsibility;...the importance of habits,...- a willingness to fail, a willingness to begin again - that are essential to resilience...the single most important habit to build if you want to e resilient: the habit of taking responsibility for your life...The more responsibility people take, the more resilient they are likely to be. The less responsibility people take - for their actions, for their lives, for their happiness - the more likely it is that life will crush them. At the root of resilience is the willingness to take responsibility for results...Life is unfair. You are not responsible for everything that happens to you. You are responsible for how you react to everything that happens to you...The first word out of the mouth of the complainer is always "they"...as soon as we say "I am responsible for...", we take control of something...acceptance of responsibility is a powerful cure for pain. Even when seemingly powerless, the resilient person finds a way to grab hold of something - no matter how small at first - to be responsible for...If you take responsibility for anything in your life, know that you'll feel fear. That fear will manifest itself in many ways: fear of embarrassment, fear of failure, fear of hurt...Every worthy challenge will inspire some fear...Fear is a cor emotion. A life without fear is an unhealthy life...Proper fear is part of the package of responsible, adult living...Focus not on wiping out your anxiety, but on directing your anxiety to worthy ends. Focus not on reducing your fear, but on building your courage - because, as you take more and more responsibility for your life, you'll need more and more courage...Fear is a motivator. It can propel you...Fear works. Fear can make human beings do amazing things. Fear can help you to see your world clearly in a way that you never have before. Fear become destructive when it drives us to do things that are unwise or unhelpful. Fear becomes destructive when it begins to cloud our vision. But like most emotions, fear is destructive only when it runs wild. Embrace the fear that comes from accepting responsibility, and use it to propel yourself to become the person you choose to be...Excellence is difficult. An excuse is seductive. It promises to end hardship, failure, and embarrassment. Excellence requires pain. An excuse promises that you'll be pain-free...Excuses protect you, but they exact a heavy cost. You can't live a full life while you wear them...People who think you weak will offer you an excuse. People who respect you will offer you a challenge...All of these injuries have a hard truth in common. In the long term, the obstacle that stands between us and healing is often not the injury we have received, but ourselves: our decision to keep the injury alive and open long after it should have become a hard-won scar. It is not things which trouble us, but the judgments we bring to bear upon things...In truth, it's not the trauma that's most harmful. The harm comes when we make trauma an excuse to avoid the activities, the relationships, and the purpose that are its only lasting cure.
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Eric Greitens (Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life)
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The vitality of a youthful life is the glory of a graceful strength.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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What then, in the last analysis, is wrong with such a single-minded presentation of the American Revolution as the national coming of age? . . . What I find objectionable about this dominant motif in our historical fiction is, first of all, that it has been prompted by such conservative motives: by defensive nostalgia, by elitism, by national chauvinism, by a sense of our moral superiority as a people, and by a desire to de-revolutionize the American Revolution. Presenting our Revolution as the national rite of passage made it seem historically unique and non-replicable. One comes of age only once. Therefore, having had our revolution . . . we need not have another oneโever again. Besides, they declared, it was a political revolution, and in no respect a social revolution. Moreover, it provided us with such a beautifully structured society, as well as such an ideal frame of government, that we will never require anything more than minor adjustmentsโsome occasional fine-tuning.
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Michael Kammen (A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination)
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The vitality of youth is a prophecy.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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From my youth, I was trained to endure rejections and change them into opportunities.
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Chaker Khazaal (Ouch! A memoir with a twistโฆ)
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KNOWING WHAT WE desire in a mate provides no guarantee that we will succeed in getting what we want. Success hinges on providing signals that we will deliver what the partner we desire is seeking. Because ancestral women valued high status in men, for example, men have evolved motivation for acquiring and displaying status. Because ancestral men desired youth and health in potential mates, women have evolved motivations to appear young and healthful. Competition to attract a mate therefore involves besting oneโs rivals in developing and displaying the characteristics most keenly sought by oneโs desired partners.
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David M. Buss (The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating)
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Why are you looking down O woman? What of yours has fallen on the ground? Oh! Oh! Fool! donโt you know, lost is my youthโs jewel!
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Rajen Jani (Old Chanakya Strategy: Aphorisms)
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I do not blame Lord French. I have no right to blame him, as I am not a soldier nor a military expert. He did his best, with the highest motives. The blunders he made were due to ignorance of modern battles. Many other generals made many other blunders, and our men paid with their lives. Our High Command had to learn by mistakes, by ghastly mistakes, repeated often, until they became visible to the military mind and were paid for again by the slaughter of British youth. One does not blame. A writing-man, who was an observer and recorder, like myself, does not sit in judgment. He has no right to judge. He merely cries out, โO God! โฆ O God!โ in remembrance of all that agony and that waste of splendid boys who loved life, and died.
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Philip Gibbs (Now It Can Be Told)
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When the storm rages in the dark night, a voice on the wind will ask, โWho are you?โ, and the quality and depth of your answer will determine whether you stand firm or flounder.
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Shawn Davis (The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions)
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When you donโt know who you are, do something, something that seems worth doing, and keep doing that until you figure out who you are, or at least who you would like to be.
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Shawn Davis (The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions)
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Learn to recognize useless guides without getting sanctimonious about it. There are good reasons there are bad adults; be thankful you are ignorant of a great many of them.
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Shawn Davis (The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions)
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An honest life starts with an honest assessment of self. You are neither worthless nor preeminent but somewhere in between.
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Shawn Davis (The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions)
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Success and failure are derived not from anything you possess but rather by the things you do. Your successes and failures rest on your actions and your actions alone.
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Shawn Davis (The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions)
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You may not have the power to do anything or everything you would like, but you do have the power to do something.
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Shawn Davis (The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions)
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In a world full of distractions, pause and feel the world around youโthe gentle rhythm of raindrops, the laughter of children, and the pulse of humanityโs collective heartbeat.
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Shree Shambav (Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I)
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A wasted life is the greatest tragedy of the 21st century.
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Henry Tyokase (The Gift of Youth: How to Refine, Define, and Redefine Your Destiny)
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With age, it is easy for arrogance to replace the curiosity of youth.
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Jay D'Cee
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I had outgrown the shallow Christianity of my youth by the time I could understand the fundamentals of Darwinian theory. After that, I could not distinguish the basic elements of Christian belief from wishful thinking. The socialism that soon afterward became so attractive to me as an alternative proved equally insubstantial; with time, I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor. Besides, the socialists were more intrinsically capitalist than the capitalists. They believed just as strongly in money. They just thought that if different people had the money, the problems plaguing humanity would vanish. This is simply untrue. There are many problems that money does not solve, and others that it makes worse. Rich people still divorce each other, and alienate themselves from their children, and suffer from existential angst, and develop cancer and dementia, and die alone and unloved. Recovering addicts cursed with money blow it all in a frenzy of snorting and drunkenness. And boredom weighs heavily on people who have nothing to do.
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Jordan B. Peterson (12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos)
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People will be asking how did we get here or why we are always lost generation ? It is because people perceptions and assumptions override facts these days.
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D.J. Kyos
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Yes, trying new things may be scary, maybe even unrealistic. But do you really want to live your entire life without being able to look back at how many obstacles you have overcome? Sometimes, you need to briefly step out of the real world to give yourself the inspiration you canโt find anywhere else; set your own boundaries for what is real to you.
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Michelle Fridman (Future Titans)
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Yes, the future is not guaranteed, but when you work smart in your youthful years, you can be assured that you are prepared and preserved from regrets.
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Gift Gugu Mona (365 Motivational Life Lessons)
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Though we are a missionary agency, with our eyes firmly fixed on reaching the whole world, that is not our deepest motivation. If it were, we would be in constant danger of being over-driven โฆ We seek to multiply an environment in which each person is encouraged and provoked to seek a constantly growing relationship with God. From that intimacy with God, we know He will lead us, individually, as teams, and as an entire movement to demonstrate and proclaim the knowledge of Him to people everywhere.
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Darlene Cunningham (Values Matter: Stories of the Beliefs & Values that Shaped Youth With A Mission)
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Yes, the future is not guaranteed but when you work smart in your youthful years, you can be assured that you are prepared and preserved from regrets.
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Gift Gugu Mona (365 Motivational Life Lessons)
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Hey friends, ever feel like lifeโs passing you by & thereโs more behind you than in front? Now, if thatโs because youโve gracefully transitioned into the โwise elderโ stage of life, all power to you! But if youโre still young at heart, hold on a sec!
Hold that thought, because guess what? Science says it might all be in your head!
Hereโs the thing: age is just a number (a stubborn number, but a number nonetheless). What matters more is your spirit! So, ditch the age filter & embrace your inner youthful self!
Sweetheart, Practice Feeling Younger Not Older !
Darling listen โ while itโs impossible for a person to actually make themselves younger, it is possible to practice feeling younger! Try some of these ideas to unlock the fountain of youth (well, the feeling of it, anyway): Stop just talking about doing things, go out & do them! Figure out quickly what you like & try to become the best in the world at it. Get Ahead of The Curve. Experience & Travel. Smile More. Learn New skills.. (at least to delay gratification) & embrace every experience life throws your way.
Wishing you all a life filled with endless youthful energy & endless fun! Hereโs to feeling fantastic, friends! Blessings!
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Rajesh Goyal, เคฐเคพเคเฅเคถ เคเฅเคฏเคฒ
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Love is the sweetness of life.โ
โPray is gold, whereas love is a diamond.โ
โLove does not wear hatred and bias.โ
โLove is a fulfillment of life; without that, life is nothing.โ
Love cannot appear and become true love without respect, tolerance, empathy, sympathy, care, and sacrifice.โ
โOne can love whoever and whenever one wants; however, expecting similar feelings from that whom one loves is a risk of self-hurting.โ
โLove speaks in your words, sights with your eyes, grows on your conduct, and finally resides in your heart, becoming your heartbeat.โ
โWhen your mind is rich in wisdom, and your heart is sensitive and filled with love, you are a person who can change the world.โ
โLove does not recognize the terms hide and seek. When it happens, it becomes visible without any fear or hesitation.โ
โThose who care for self-respect show real and true love, and they do not break the trust and certainty of their beloved. Love cannot stay where there is no self-respect.โ
โIf you love someone, and you are also keeping the options, it is not fair to your lover, not even yourself. You are just an opportunist. True love knows no options.โ
โLove for humanity is the mother of every love; no other love can prevail over it.โ
โEtiquette, respect, and love embellish and beautify the character while also helping to reach and qualify for success in life.โ
โLove with motives does not have success and embraces shame and sorry.โ
โMy religion is love, which I have learned from my religion.โ
โBeauty hits eyes, and love touches heartbeats.โ
โThe billions of beautiful faces exist in the world, but I fell in love with one face.โ
โThe silent love has more truth than the spoken one.โ
โPlease pray for me. I am going to fall in love.โ
โI do not search for a true friend and true love. I practice becoming a true friend and giving true love.โ
โI can never feel again such love which I had felt for the first time in my youth.โ
โIf there is no current, the lamp does not light up; similarly, if there is no passion, love does not become the heartbeat.โ
โLove with the heart validates purity and truth. Love with the mind may evidence diplomacy and tact.โ
โReal and pure love exists at the age of nine and ninety years; between that lies a risk. However, an exception may become a wonder.โ
โLove fragrances, and colors, the breath waves that inspire the heart language.โ
โLove bears two negative feelings; fear and jealousy, overcoming that beautify life; otherwise, these become self-hurting.โ
โLove is not just a remedy for sex frustration; it is a solemn life pledge to be together for all seasons and circumstances.โ
โHow simple it is, how deep it is, and how true it is, within the two-L-that you are my Life and Love. Do we honestly make also perfumed that?โ
โLog in Love; log out Hatred and scan evil threats with the purity of thoughts: Life becomes secure and stays smooth and flowery.โ
โAnyone who indulges only in self-love remains devoid of true love.โ
"Your words can be constructive or destructive. Love is a positive energy that grows when it is filled up with sweet words and keeps love fresh and alive. If there are destructive words, love will go dry and finally die.
"Love is a context of heartbeats; intimacy is its dictionary; use it carefully and properly; otherwise, typos can cause risks.
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Ehsan Sehgal
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You Can Be Late
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Emmanuel Ewurum Chimuanya
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You Can Be Late And Become The LATEST
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Emmanuel Ewurum Chimuanya
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If wishes were fishes, we would all cast a net.
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Juno Dawson (Under My Skin)
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In 1984, I started down the same road as Descartes. I did not know it was the same road at the time, and I am not claiming kinship with Descartes, who is rightly regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. But I was truly plagued with doubt. I had outgrown the shallow Christianity of my youth by the time I could understand the fundamentals of Darwinian theory. After that, I could not distinguish the basic elements of Christian belief from wishful thinking. The socialism that soon afterward became so attractive to me as an alternative proved equally insubstantial; with time, I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor. Besides, the socialists were more intrinsically capitalist than the capitalists. They believed just as strongly in money. They just thought that if different people had the money, the problems plaguing humanity would vanish. This is simply untrue. There are many problems that money does not solve, and others that it makes worse. Rich people still divorce each other, and alienate themselves from their children, and suffer from existential angst, and develop cancer and dementia, and die alone and unloved. Recovering addicts cursed with money blow it all in a frenzy of snorting and drunkenness. And boredom weighs heavily on people who have nothing to do.
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Jordan B. Peterson (12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos)
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someone aspiring to reach the greater potential of the human animal, is to widen your relationship to time as much as possible, and slow it down. This means you do not see the passage of time as an enemy but rather as a great ally. Each stage in life has its advantagesโthose of youth are most obvious, but with age comes greater perspective. Aging does not frighten you. Death is equally your friend (see chapter 18). It motivates you to make the most of each moment; it gives you a sense of urgency. Time is your great teacher and master.
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Robert Greene (The Laws of Human Nature)
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In order to reach your full potential, you must first believe you have potential. You have unique skills, interests, perspectives, ideas and ways of showing up in the world that make you different than anyone else in the universe. The pain and suffering you feel now will one day be a blurry memory, and your challenges and darkest moments are what make you an inspiration to others. The things that make you different than your peers are the very things that make you important and valuable.
Every great leader, activist and change-maker started as a child who chose to take action to change the world. Remind yourself over and over again that have the power to choose; You have the power to choose to embody the best version of yourself; You have the power to choose to make life better for the people and world around you; You have the power to choose the legacy you leave behind. Whoever you want to be and however you want to be remembered, choose that. Never forget you matter, and you choose your life story.
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Lauren Martin (One Wave: A little book of oneness)
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This is the reason that schools should teach youth how to learn for themselves, but self-learning requires internal motivation, which requires curiosity, interest, and joy.
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Ari Neuman (Home Smart - How Homeschooled Children Become Confident, Independent Adults)
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Behavioral Warning Signs โI literally lost myself. I literally couldnโt recognize myself. I had acne, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, I had no idea what was going on.โ โApril When youโre in a narcissistic relationship, you lose sight of youโthe things you used to do, the goals you used to set, the places you used to go, and the person you used to be. So much of your mental, emotional, and physical energy is devoted to managing the relationship, you no longer have the emotional bandwidth to explore your values, priorities, and purpose. Essentially, youโre living in an emotional war zone. Which means a lot of your attention and energy is focused on self-protection. And when youโre in self-protection, you donโt feel safe to be open, engaging, and social. And yet, many of our personal, professional, and life ambitions require us to be creative, imaginative, adaptable, expressive, resilient, dedicated, consistent, and motivated. Narcissistic relationships seep into your very being and threaten to change what you do and what you believe you can accomplish.
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Chelsey Brooke Cole (If Only I'd Known: How to Outsmart Narcissists, Set Guilt-Free Boundaries, and Create Unshakeable Self-Worth)
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The future belongs to those who harness the power of their youth, daring to dream and determined to achieve.
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Aloo Denish Obiero
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Youth brings fresh perspectives, challenging the status quo and paving the way for innovation and advancement.
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Aloo Denish Obiero
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Youth is the spirit of play
with the forces of ominosity.
Youth is the conquest of death
into the daring pastures of duty.
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Abhijit Naskar (World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets (Sonnet Centuries))
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Youth are absolution to habits of death. Youth are walking illumination manifest.
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Abhijit Naskar (World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets (Sonnet Centuries))
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Illumination Manifest
(Youth Sonnet, 1528)
Youth are the cure
for all dividing insanity.
You are the antidote
to all bewitching animosity.
Don't confuse youth as a measure
of agist conventionality.
Youth is but a sanctifying dawn,
out of the dusk of rigidity.
Youth is the spirit of play
with the forces of ominosity.
Youth is the conquest of death
into the daring pastures of duty.
Youth are absolution to habits of death.
Youth are walking illumination manifest.
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Abhijit Naskar (World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets (Sonnet Centuries))
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Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
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M. Prefontaine (The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else (Quotes For Every Occasion 1))
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Ilich's academic syllabus motivated him much less than far-left politics, as he readily recognised: 'I acquired a personal culture by travelling in Russia and other countries. I learned to use Marx's dialectic method. It's an experience which is useful to all revolutionaries'. Fellow students describe him as passionate about Marxism, but as a romantic rather than an ideologue. An envoy of the Venezuelan Communist Party came to the conclusion that this young man had potential. But the offer of a post as its representative in Bucharest which Dr Eduardo Gallegos Mancera, a member of the party's politburo, made to llich when they met in Moscow did not tempt him. As his father had done, Ilich decided to keep the party at arm's length and turned Mancera down.
His snubbing of the appointment did not endear him to the Venezuelan Communist Party, and he further blackened his name by supporting a rebel faction. Since 1964 a storm had been brewing back home following the refusal of the young Commander Douglas Bravo, in charge of the party's military affairs and loyal to Che Guevara's doctrine, to toe the official line. Party policy dictated that armed struggle as a means to revolution should be abandoned in favour of a 'broad popular movement for progressive democratic change'. The storm broke in the late 1960s when Bravo left the party. Ilich, still at Lumumba University, wholeheartedly supported him as a true revolutionary, and this led to his expulsion in the early summer of 1969 from the Venezuelan Communist Youth, the first political movement he had joined.
Robbed of the backing of a Soviet-endorsed party, Ilich was an easy target for the university authorities, whom he had again angered earlier in 1969 when he joined a demonstration by Arab students. Moscow had no time for Bravo's followers: one Pravda editorial condemned Cuban-backed revolutionary movements in Latin America like Bravo's as 'anti-Marxist' and declared that only orthodox parties held the key to the future.
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John Follain (Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal)
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I've always admired the natural enthusiasm for life that children have. It inspires me to keep that same energy within me as I age.
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Robin S. Baker
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The future is shaped by young people foolish enough to believe they can topple a mountain. And yet, when we stand among the rubble, we wonder why no one tried sooner.
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Mitch Rowland (Eternity's Redemption (The Sword of Eternity, #2))
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The youth of America need routine, repetition toward excellence, a sound but not punishing discipline, and the opportunity to make mistakes without the feeling of failure.
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George M. Gilbert (Team Of One: We Believe)
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โข I have experienced the youth of Generation X, Y and currently Z. Teenage boys have changed in many ways over the years. Yet still they are quite similar to the boys I first coached in 1980 at a high school in Ohio.
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George M. Gilbert (Team Of One: We Believe)
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Introducing the No More Tears Slicer, which lets you slice your prep time in half! With the No More Tears Onion Slicer, you can slice your way through onions, dice vegetables, and slice cheese in minutes! This is one kitchen tool you don't want to do without! Order this time-saving instrument NOW for the TV-price of only $19.99! The University of Portlandia is seeking a research fellow to work on the Multilingual Metrolingualism (MM) project, a new five-year NSF-funded project led by Dr Hannelore Holmes. We are seeking a highly motivated and committed researcher to work on all aspects of the MM Project, but in particular on developing a coding system suitable for urban youth language use. Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant area of sociolinguistics or a closely related field. Proficiency in at least one of the following languages is essential: French, Swahili, Mandarin, or Tok Pisin. Candidates must also have good knowledge and understanding of discourse analysis, semiotics, and grammatical analysis. Applicants should demonstrate enthusiasm for independent research and commitment to developing their research career. The post is fixed-term for five years due to funding. The post is available from April 1 or as soon as possible thereafter. Job sharers welcome. The University of Portlandia is an Equal Opportunity
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Ronald Wardhaugh (An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics))
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Youthful period is the time to make manful period effective and worth living
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ETC Wanyanwu
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The spirit of Christ dwells in a holy body.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Dreaming is how you set your future in motion.
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Tobi Delly (25 Things you Must Have Before age 25)
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A high-pitched voice may sound less authoritative, more youthful, and less experienced, whereas, a lower pitched voice may be perceived as being more authoritative, confident, and credible. It is unfortunate that listeners will make assumptions based on these differences before even knowing the depth and value of your message. Play with your ranges and find a comfortably low pitch. Practice it to see if it makes a difference in conveying more authority and brilliance.
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Susan C. Young (The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact(The Art of First Impressions for Positive Impact, #5))
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It is my argument that American liberalism is a totalitarian political religion, but not necessarily an Orwellian one. It is nice, not brutal. Nannying, not bullying. But it is definitely totalitarian--or "holistic", if you prefer--in that liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say. Sex is political. Food is political. Sports, entertainment, your inner motives and outer appearance, all have political salience for liberal fascists. Liberals place their faith in priestly experts who know better, who plan, exhort, badger, and scold. They try to use science to discredit traditional notions of religion and faith, but they speak the language of pluralism and spirituality to defend "nontraditional" beliefs. Just as with classical fascism, liberal fascists speak of a "Third Way" between right and left where all good things go together and all hard choices are "false choices".
The idea that there are no hard choices--that is, choices between competing goods--is religious and totalitarian because it assumes that all good things are fundamentally compatible. The conservatives or classical liberal vision understands that life is unfair, that man is flawed, and that the only perfect society, the only real utopia, waits for us in the next life.
Liberal fascism differs from classical fascism in many ways. I don't deny this. Indeed, it is central to my point. Fascisms differ from each other because they grow out of different soil. What unites them are their emotional or instinctual impulses, such as the quest for community, the urge to "get beyond" politics, a faith in the perfectibility of man and the authority of experts, and an obsession with the aesthetics of youth, the cult of action, and the need for an all powerful state to coordinate society at the national or global level. Most of all, they share the belief--what I call the totalitarian temptation--that with the right amount of tinkering we can realize the utopian dream of "creating a better world".
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Jonah Goldberg (Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning)
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I have seen what hard work can do, and I know what more it can and will do.
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RealTalkWithNthabi
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Have fun, and learn something.
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Stanley Gordon West (Blind Your Ponies)
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Race-ism: a religion where the pious practitioners walk faithfully in the dogma of social categorization. Often leading to a rise in violence, race-ism promotes the idea that men with an excess of brown pigment in their skin, a type of natural sunblock, and men who are lacking in this pigment, are as opposed to one another, and different from each other as cats and dogs, or birds and monkeys. Today, race-ism is preached from every available media outlet, flooding the hearts and minds of our youth with a false idea, one that's fueled by self hatred, and insecurity. Much like all faiths, the racists put on smiling faces, and tout the good causes of social justice, and equality, in a disguised attempt to dominate the world, and form it to their own perceptions. Race-ism is a meme, the offspring of the 'tree of knowledge', also known as men, or males. There is no "coexist" in the world of memes. They, the memes, although delusional, consider themselves vitally important, motivated by the most basic of instincts and desires, the desire to "be fruitful and multiply". There are many memes that humans have been trodden under. The most famous is the one in the book of Genesis. Adam and Eve's invention of the word 'naked', resulted in the faith that our entire civilized world is but a product of. The faith that one should be "ashamed" of one's self, just for simply existing. In other words, the faith in 'good enough', and not 'good enough'. The fruits of which, continue to curse every fiber of our existence. We have become so embarrassingly desperate in our need to conquer our faith, that churches have evolved into universities, where, for a price, professors preach divine instruction in the difficult path of attaining that most longed for goal, 'good enough'. Knowing that memes are so dangerous, and that they desire our worship, our belief, the taste of our blood, as well as our undivided attention, this is why I'm a member of the only denomination of race-ism that preaches the gospel. The church of One Race. The human race.
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Sun Moon
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The glory of youth is their strength.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming. . . . These people are waiting for a bus on a street where no busses pass. . . . They can end up waiting forever. And that is what most people do. BRIAN TRACYย ย ย
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Mark DeVries (Sustainable Youth Ministry: Why Most Youth Ministry Doesn't Last and What Your Church Can Do About It)
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No man or woman likes to be a fool, but here's the thing my mother taught me long ago, and it is a lesson that stuck. You can spend hours speculating on a man's motivations, trying to pinpoint what clue you missed, what missteps you made, when the relationship turned, or why he didn't like you as much as you thought he did. And you could sit around like a fool letting someone else hold court in your mind when you were hardly a blip on his radar. Or you can just let it go and look at the person in the rearview mirror and keep driving.
To be honest, my mother never had to have this talk with me. I was too private to share my youthful heartbreak publicly. But I remember once as a teenager watching my mother nurse Aunt Martie after a particularly brutal breakup. [...] My mother, finally, at her wits' end, grabbed Aunt Martie by the shoulders, shook her violently, and said, "The sexual revolution didn't happen so you could sit by the phone sobbing like some stupid little girl. Enough. Fucking pull yourself together. He's just one guy."
Maybe that was the part that always stuck. I never wanted my mother to look at me with such horrified disrespect.
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Lisa Lutz (The Last Word (The Spellmans, #6))
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All children wear a sign that says, โI want to be important NOW!โ Many of our problems with todayโs youth arise because nobody reads the sign.โ โREVEREND JESSE JACKSON
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Richard Lavoie (The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child)
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Enjoy youthful days.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Ministry, then, is not about "using" relationships to get individuals to accept a "third thing," whether that be conservative politics, moral behaviors or even the gospel message. Rather, ministry is about connection, one to another, about sharing in suffering and joy, about persons meeting persons with no pretense or secret motives. It is about shared life, confessing Christ not outside the relationship but within it. This, I learned, was living the gospel.
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Andrew Root (Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation)
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A blessed deed is saying hello with a smile to someone you meet on the street, in the shop, in the bus, in the office, in the church, in the holy places, in the mosque, at the park, at the school, at the universityโฆ..โ This is the greatest action of belonging to one another.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Enjoy your youthful times and do the all the work you can.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Anglos dominated the prisoner population in 1977 and did not lose their plurality until 1988. Meanwhile, absolute numbers grew across the boardโwith the total number of those incarcerated approximately doubling during each interval. African American prisoners surpassed all other groups in 1988, but by 1995, they had been overtaken by Latinos; however, Black people have the highest rate of incarceration of any racial/ethnic grouping in California, or, for that matter, in the United States (see also Bonczar and Beck 1997). TABLE 4 CDC PRISONER POPULATION BY RACE/ETHNICITY The structure of new laws, intersecting with the structure of the burgeoning relative surplus population, and the stateโs concentrated use of criminal laws in the Southland, produced a remarkable racial and ethnic shift in the prison population. Los Angeles is the primary county of commitment. Most prisoners are modestly educated men in the prime of life: 88 percent are between 19 and 44 years old. Less than 45 percent graduated from high school or read at the ninth-grade level; one in four is functionally illiterate. And, finally, the percentage of prisoners who worked six months or longer for the same employer immediately before being taken into custody has declined, from 54.5 percent in 1982 to 44 percent in 2000 (CDC, Characteristics of Population, various years). TABLE 5 CDC COMMITMENTS BY CONTROLLING OFFENSE (%) At the bottom of the first and subsequent waves of new criminal legislation lurked a key contradiction. On the one hand, the political rhetoric, produced and reproduced in the media, concentrated on the need for laws and prisons to control violence. โCrimeโ and โviolenceโ seemed to be identical. However, as table 5 shows, there was a significant shift in the controlling (or most serious) offenses for those committed to the CDC, from a preponderance of violent offenses in 1980 to nonviolent crimes in 1995. More to the point, the controlling offenses for more than half of 1995โs commitments were nonviolent crimes of illness or of illegal income producing activity: drug use, drug sales, burglary, motor vehicle theft. The outcome of the first two years of Californiaโs broadly written โthree strikesโ law presents a similar picture: in the period March 1994โJanuary 1996, 15 percent of controlling offenses were violent crimes, 31 percent were drug offenses, and 41 percent were crimes against property (N = 15,839) (Christoper Davis et al. 1996). The relative surplus population comes into focus in these numbers. In 1996, 43 percent of third-strike prisoners were Black, 32.4 percent Latino, and 24.6 percent Anglo. The deliberate intensification of surveillance and arrest in certain areas, combined with novel crimes of status, drops the weight of these numbers into particular places. The chair of the State Task Force on Youth Gang Violence expressed the overlap between presumptions of violence and the exigencies of everyday reproduction when he wrote: โWe are talking about well-organized, drug-dealing, dangerously armed and profit-motivated young hoodlums who are engaged in the vicious crimes of murder, rape, robbery, extortion and kidnapping as a means of making a livingโ (Philibosian 1986: ix; emphasis added).
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads Book 21))
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You have a great talent and a great role in the world.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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We are not placed when and where we are by accident anymore than Bilbo or Frodo. We are given experiences, molded in a particular way, and set along specific roads, so that we may be in the right place at the right time to do what God wants of us. We can discern the unique way that He wishes us to live out our vocation by the interests, talents, and abilities that He gave us. He did not bestow these graces upon anyone else in exactly the same way. Rather than allow our fears to stifle them, we must find the courage to leave our comfortable and secure hobbit holes for an exhilarating and terrifying adventure that will bring us alive in a way that we have not been since childhood. For too many, our youth was the last time that we believed all things were possible. This does not need to be true.
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Anne Marie Gazzolo (Moments of Grace and Spiritual Warfare in The Lord of the Rings)
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Live life like a Legend, and society will start acknowledging you as a great Entrepreneur !
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Ujjwal Chugh (How to Crack the SSB - Services Selection Board)
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And what if Iโm afraid of letting down the people who are depending on me?โ I asked. โI fear letting down my wife. Sheโs depending on me. My future kids are depending on me. What if I fail and Iโve wasted my time and money chasing a fruitless dream? Iโm not only failing myself, Iโm failing my family.โ Andre came to a stop and I did the same. I was taking deep breaths. โThe problem isnโt caring about the people close to youโthe problem is letting fear be your motivator,โ Andre said. โRemember, fear is an emotion driven by your expectations. Like every other fear, fearing that youโre going to let someone down makes you timid, tight, and indecisive.
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Darrin Donnelly (Victory Favors the Fearless: How to Defeat the 7 Fears That Hold You Back (Sports for the Soul Book 5))
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There is glory in being youthful.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Painful is indeed foolishness, painful is indeed youth, but painfully painful is residing in another personโs house.
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Rajen Jani (Old Chanakya Strategy: Aphorisms)
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With beauty and youth endowed, and in a large high-status family born, yet men without education are not befitting, just like a fragrantless Kinshuka flower.
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Rajen Jani (Old Chanakya Strategy: Aphorisms)
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In his heroic arms is a kingโs strength; a Brahminโs strength is in his knowledge of Brahma; in beauty, youth, and sweet speech, is a womanโs excellent strength.
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Rajen Jani (Old Chanakya Strategy: Aphorisms)
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The vitality of youth is the grace of strength to fulfill the visions.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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FIDELITY AND BETRAYAL
He loved her from the time he was a child until the time he accompanied her to the cemetery; he loved her in his memories as well. That is what made him feel that fidelity deserved pride of place among the virtues: fidelity gave a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions. Franz often spoke about his mother to Sabina, perhaps even with a certain unconscious ulterior motive: he assumed that Sabina would be charmed by his ability to be faithful, that it would win her over. What he did not know was that Sabina was charmed more by betrayal than by fidelity. The word fidelity reminded her of her father, a small-town puritan, who spent his Sundays painting away at canvases of woodland sunsets and roses in vases. Thanks to him, she started drawing as a child. When she was fourteen, she fell in love with a boy her age. Her father was so frightened that he would not let her out of the house by herself for a year. One day, he showed her some Picasso reproductions and made fun of them. If she couldn't love her fourteen-year-old schoolboy, she could at least love cubism. After completing school, she went off to Prague with the euphoric feeling that now at last she could betray her home. Betrayal. From tender youth, we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offense imaginable. But what is betrayal? Betrayal means breaking ranks. Betrayal means breaking ranks and going off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown. Though a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, she was not allowed to paint like Picasso. It was the period when so-called socialist realism was prescribed and the school manufactured Portraits of Communist statesmen. Her longing to betray her father remained unsatisfied: Communism was merely another father, a father equally strict and limited, a father who forbade her love (the times were puritanical) and Picasso, too. And if she married a second-rate actor, it was only because he had a reputation for being eccentric and was unacceptable to both fathers. Then her mother died. The day following her return to Prague from the funeral, she received a telegram saying that her father had taken his life out of grief. Suddenly she felt pangs of conscience: Was it really so terrible that her father had painted vases filled with roses and hated Picasso? Was it really so reprehensible that he was afraid of his fourteen-year-old daughter's coming home pregnant? Was it really so laughable that he could not go on living without his wife? And again she felt a longing to betray: betray her own betrayal. She announced to her husband (whom she now considered a difficult drunk rather than an eccentric) that she was leaving him. But if we betray B., for whom we betrayed A., it does not necessarily follow that we have placated A. The life of a divorcee-painter did not in the least resemble the life of the parents she had betrayed. The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from the point of our original betrayal.
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Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
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Bigger isnโt better; healthier is better. Steer clear of churches and youth workers who are driven by numbers, and surround yourself with those who are motivated by serving God faithfully and pursuing health.
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Doug Fields (Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry: A Personal and Practical Guide to Starting Right)
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From the outset, Lewis seems to have realised that if Christianity was true, it resolved the intellectual and imaginative riddles that had puzzled him since his youth. His youthful โtreaty with realityโ had been his own attempt to impose an arbitrary (yet convenient) order on a chaotic world. Now he began to realise that there was a deeper order, grounded in the nature of God, which could be discernedโand which, once grasped, made sense of culture, history, science, and above all the acts of literary creation that he valued so highly and made his lifeโs study. Lewisโs coming to faith brought not simply understanding to his reading of literature; it brought both motivation and theoretical underpinning to his own literary creationsโbest seen in his late work Till We Have Faces (1956), but also evident in the Chronicles of Narnia.
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Alister E. McGrath (C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet)
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An older man once told me that you should be selfcentered and self-motivated in your youth because, in that process, you become the man youโre meant to be.
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Tasha L. Harrison (She Said Yes (Say Yes Duet, #2))
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The emotions healing is in you,the moment you going through in some situation when the cloud of it passed away after recorgnising that you didnt died on the table of it.The important thing to do is to smell the coffee by seeing that the cloud is passed away and you real alive then choose to Live and do with all means to recorver, that's the real healing and what I did. See! the professional help or third hand just swip the floor as God created human fearfuly and wonderfuly that what he does for human fullness of healing within himself with natural recorvery all it based on our believe.
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Nozipho N.Maphumulo
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Through you, through you, through you...the magic works through you. Not beside you. Not around you. Not for you. Not despite you. But through you. You have to go there. You have to choose your stage. You have to do your dance. Putting yourself in place, to any degree that you can, even if it scares you, even when it's "hard," even if it's just your big toe. Stretch yourself, scoff at the odds, get the ball rolling so that the magic can then come alive and sweep you off your feet with its infinite grace and glory. You wouldn't just carry around the seeds for the garden of your dreams in your pocket, all the while asking where your flowers were? Nope, you'd have to brave the elements, you'd have to choose the location, and then you'd have to go there. Your life is your wand.
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Mike Dooley
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As a motivational speaker.
How do you motivate someone when you know they have far better chances of being shot and killed by the police, rather than them graduating and getting a job in our country.
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D.J. Kyos
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Question the motives of your professors. Pay attention to how they twist the facts, or editorialize during lecture. Ask them questions. Make them defend themselves. Make other students think before they buy into the professorial mindset.
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Ben Shapiro (Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth)
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Q Will a plan based upon immoral or unjust ends succeed as quickly as one motivated by a keen sense of justice and morality? A Through the operation of the law of compensation, everyone reaps that which he sows. Plans based on unjust or immoral motives may bring temporary success, but enduring success must take into consideration the fourth dimension, time. Time is the enemy of immorality and injustice. It is the friend of justice and morality. Failure to recognize this fact has been responsible for the crime wave among the youths of the world. The youthful, inexperienced mind is apt to mistake temporary success for permanency. The youth often makes the mistake of coveting the temporary gains of immoral, unjust plans, but neglects to look ahead and observe the penalties which follow as definitely as night follows day.
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Napoleon Hill (Outwitting the Devilยฎ: The Secret to Freedom and Success (Official Publication of the Napoleon Hill Foundation))
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The curricula proved by irrefutable findings prepare generations for the past, not the future. The official exams only hinder its circumvention where it only differs in the letterhead and the dates of its conduct. This is the utmost betrayal against an entire generation of hidden gems.
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Mahdi Mansour
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What discouraged me most from the goals of my youth were not my failures but my successes, that they proved so hollow.
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Shawn Davis (The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions)
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Looking back, I had many preconceptions and even misconceptions about Zenโdreams of mystical experiences on mountaintops and such. At least in part, I was motivated by a youthful desire to escape the seemingly boring familiarity of my native culture and to seek adventure in an exotic land. In effect, I was fleeing rather than finding myself, insofar as I was yearning for the exciting and extraordinary rather than awakening to the here and now of what in Zen is called "the ordinary mind" or "the everyday even mind
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Bret W. Davis (Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism)
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Your identity is formed in part by your past, but only in part, and not the most important part. Your past is merely a starting point.
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Shawn Davis (The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions)
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We can't and don't know what others are thinking. We can't and don't know what motivations people have for doing the things they do. Ever. Not entirely. This was my terrifying, youthful epiphany. We just never really know anyone. I don't. Neither do you.
It's amazing that relationships can form and last under the constraints of never fully knowing. Never knowing for sure what the other person is thinking. Never knowing for sure who a person is. We can't do whatever we want. There are ways we have to act. There are things we have to say.
But we can think whatever we want.
Anyone can think anything. Thoughts are the only reality. It's true. I'm sure of it now. Thoughts are never faked or bluffed. This simple realization has stayed with me. It has bothered me for years and years. It still does.
"Are you good or are you bad?"
What scares me most now is that I don't know the answer.
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Iain Reid (I'm Thinking of Ending Things)
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For causes entirely incompatible with reason, or for reasons entirely undeserving of death, hot headed youths rushed into it as insects fly into fire; mixed and dubious motives drove more samurai to this deed than nuns into convent gates. Life was cheapโcheap as reckoned by the popular standard of honor. The saddest feature was that honor, which was always in the agio, so to speak, was not always solid gold, but alloyed with baser metals. No one circle in the Inferno will boast of greater density of Japanese population than the seventh, to which Dante consigns all victims of self-destruction!
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Nitobe Inazล (Bushido: The Soul of Japan (AmazonClassics Edition))
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The young shall grow, strong in spirit, full of grace.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Michelangelo was not very handsome, with a forehead that was too broad, a crooked nose โ broken during a brawl in his youth โ bushy eyebrows, ears that stuck out a little. He couldnโt stand his own face, it was said. It was often said that if he sought perfection of features, beauty in faces, itโs because he himself lacked them completely. Only old age and fame would give him an unparalleled aura, like a kind of patina on an object that started out ugly. Perhaps itโs in this frustration that we can find the energy of his art; in the violence of the era, in the humiliation of artists, in rebellion against nature, in the lure of money, the inextinguishable thirst for advancement and glory that is the most powerful of motivators.
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Mathias รnard (Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'รฉlรฉphants)
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The best coaches have a growth mindset and know how to motivate, communicate, and inspire their athletes to achieve more than they ever would on their own. They instill a love of the game, a passion for achievement, and model the character and values that they preach to their athletes. They know when a kid needs a hug and when he needs a metaphoric kick in the rear. All high performers can point to various coaches as major contributors in their ultimate success, and most lifelong athletes can point to a coach who taught them to love sport and to be active for life.
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John O'Sullivan (Changing the Game: The Parent's Guide to Raising Happy, High-Performing Athletes and Giving Youth Sports Back to Our Kids)
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It has been proven time and again that a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative comments provides children with the best education and motivation to be successful. The coach that is constantly pointing out the negative, and never providing praise when it has been earned, is dangerous for your child and will lead to their emotional breakdown.
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John O'Sullivan (Changing the Game: The Parent's Guide to Raising Happy, High-Performing Athletes and Giving Youth Sports Back to Our Kids)
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Doing things familiar in anybody the solution is find something you you can do hand work if you old age, if is child buy for him or her hand work toy,Youth or teens get sport to play and handy work cause all crave start from the mind if there's nothing you do it mind desperation and end up doing things you're didn't think you were so it better to make a healthy back up while you on your way of fixing situations of finding something to keep your mind busy or start your own business will be an answer.
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Nozipho N. Maphumulo
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If your child is going to be a high performer, he needs control over his athletic experience. The sport must be his choice, his performance must be based upon his efforts and motivation, and his development must be a result of his failures and successes. As a result, the outcome of his achievement belongs to him and him alone.
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John O'Sullivan (Changing the Game: The Parent's Guide to Raising Happy, High-Performing Athletes and Giving Youth Sports Back to Our Kids)
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To lovers out there โฆ.
Spend your youth days with me so I can spend your old days with you. Spend your good times with me so I can spend your bad times with you. Spend your strong days with me so I can spend your weak days with you. Spend your happy days with me so I can spend your sad days with you. Spend your rich days with me so I can spend your poor days with you. Spend your success days with me so I can spend your failure days with you. Spend your days where you are beautiful with me so I can spend the days where you are no longer attractive with you. The problem is we want to give ourselves to others when we are no longer in good shape or condition. When we are tired, burned out , warned out and exhausted. When we are emotionally damaged, depressed and heart broken. We then want to be loved and accepted by force by those who we rejected when everything was going well for us.
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De philosopher DJ Kyos
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Children are like sponges and all they really want to do is latch on to someone that inspires them to learn.
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Gwen Ro
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Be X-elegant.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Do not lose the enthusiasm of your youth.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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So now, even if I wanted to, I could not become a moderate person. Still, I love life and do not want my high-spirited personality to kill me, as it almost did in my youth. This is one reason that motivated me to discover
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John A. McDougall (The Starch Solution: Eat the Foods You Love, Regain Your Health, and Lose the Weight for Good!)
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Dancing is my daily exercise.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Be productive at your youthful age, for the future is promised to no one.
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Ernest-Bright Connings
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Enjoy your youth responsibly, and then live the rest of your life like a Legend.
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Manthan R. Sheth
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Happy Youth
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1 Timothy 4:12
Ecclesiastes 12:1
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D.J. Kyos
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We can also surface milestones that would have gone unnoticed. โข What if every member of a youth sports team got a โbefore-and-afterโ video of their progress? โข Number-heavy organizational goals are fine as tools of accountability, but smart leaders surface more motivational milestones en route to the target. 8. Moments when we display courage make us proud. We never know when courage will be demanded, but we can practice to ensure weโre ready. โข The protesters involved in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins didnโt just show courage, they rehearsed it. 9. Practicing courage lets us โpreloadโ our responses. โข Gentileโs approach to ethics says we usually know WHAT is right but donโt know HOW to act. 10. Courage is contagious; our moments of action can be a defining moment for others.
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Chip Heath (The Power of Moments: Why Certain Moments Have Extraordinary Impact)