I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
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The good social worker doesn't go on mechanically helping people out of a ditch. Pretty soon, she/he begins to find out what ought to be done to get rid of the ditch.
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
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Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
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Education means developing the mind
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If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
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I have never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed. I have always had high regard for the man who could tell me how to succeed.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine.
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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...~ Orison Swett Marden
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Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
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From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children
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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.
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Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
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You really can change the world if you care enough.
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So let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don't give up, or quit.
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The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge.
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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
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Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
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We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
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What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
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When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.
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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.~ Benjamin Disraeli
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We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
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