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“We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.”
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“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
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“When it comes to animals we are allowed to enjoy the euphoria of the bonds we form with them but at the cost of enduring the heartache of agonizing loss.”
― Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder
― Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder
“Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.”
― Love Over Scotland
― Love Over Scotland
“Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. "Leadership qualities" are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.”
― Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
― Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
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