What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard ShawRead
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
Interpretation
Embrace your flaws or past mistakes instead of hiding them.
This quote suggests that instead of trying to hide the 'skeletons' or past mistakes we all have, we should learn to accept them and even find a way to make the best of those situations. Teaching the skeleton to dance symbolizes the idea of turning our struggles into strengths and living authentically, which ultimately can lead to personal growth and resilience.
In practice
A self-help speech encouraging people to confront their past.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
Speak the truth._x000D_ Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently,_x000D_ and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power._x000D_ Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence._x000D_ All growth is not good._x000D_ The environment is a necessity, not a luxury._x000D_ There is such a thing as enough.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.
He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.
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