#sons

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all -- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. ↗

— Randy Komisar

#life-philosophy #priorities #working #education

I had been given the greatest gift an education could provide: I had a better idea of what it meant to live a good life ↗

— Eric Greitens

#education

La ventaja competitiva de una sociedad no vendrá de lo bien que se enseñe en sus escuelas la multiplicación y las tablas periódicas, sino de lo bien que se sepa estimular la imaginación y la creatividad. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#life-lessons #science #education

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#courage #daughters #few #like #more

You can't force feed a fool. They are blind to their need. ↗

— E'yen A. Gardner

#life-lessons #experience

Mitch,if you're trying to show off for people at the top,forget it.They will look down at you anyhow.And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom,forget it.They will only envy you.Status will get you nowhere.Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#equality

The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally. ↗

— Teresa Mummert

#couples #life #life-lessons #relationships #respect

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#days #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#kindlehighlight #life-lessons #experience

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing. ↗

— Jennifer Brown

#life-lessons #pain #traumatic-experiences #experience