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Poems and Quotations
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"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he/she is someone today." ~Stacia Tauscher
"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he/she is someone today." ~Stacia Tauscher
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A few of my all time favorite quotes:
Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.
Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
"It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love." Jack Canfield
"If at first an idea isn't absurd, there's no hope for it." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make them my friends?" Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) (My ultimate favorite!)
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"You have to love your child unselfishly. That's hard, but it's the only way." Barbara Bush, former First Lady.
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary
"You can't teach anyone anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves." Galileo Galilei, Italian scientist and philosopher
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure." Norman Vincent Peale, American theologian
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." Benjamin Disraeli, English statesman and novelist.
"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and playwright
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." Dr. Joyce Brothers, American psychologist
"Children have more need of models than of critics." Joseph Joubert, French writer
"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up." Barbara Bush, former First Lady.
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