#den

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. ↗

— Larry Elder

#accidents #auto #black #cause #death

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy. ↗

— William Glasser

#even #good #grade #help #help others

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world. ↗

— William Glasser

#begins #build #client #control #counselor

Sweetheart, I want you to go somewhere with your life. I know that you can do some wonderful things if you set your mind to it. You’re a smart and caring teenager. Much more mature then most seventeen year olds. But death is inevitable for everybody. No matter how much people try to fight it, it’s going to happen.” Eden looked at me with a serious expression painted on her face. “Death doesn’t suit everybody, though. ↗

— B.C. Doyle

#til-death-do-us-part #death

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. ↗

— William Glasser

#intellectual #lack #relationship #school #students

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ↗

— George Eliot

#come #golden #gone #know #life

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

#bred #cloudy #damp #despondency #egoism

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#creativity #hand #maiden

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#dublin #garden #here #history #i

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#again #i #kind #looking #radio