#instruction

This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

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#enjoy #life-instructions #operating-manual #life

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. ↗

— Xun Zi

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#changed #conventions #courtesy #first #guided

By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin. ↗

— Jasper Rees

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#age