Perfection is deception. An illusion. It’s a carefully curated but false narrative.
“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”
― Long Walk to Freedom
― Long Walk to Freedom
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
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