"Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence."

Augustine, St. on life
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky."

Wilde, Oscar on sky
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on love
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"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

Buddha on love
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"In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period?"

Gramsci, Antonio on adolescence
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"They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc."

Frank, Anne on adolescence
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"Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall."

Lerner, Max on adolescence
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"Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls."

Hawkins, Anthony Hope on adolescence
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"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten."

Feiffer, Jules on adolescence
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"Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you."

Brown, Les on smile
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"Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful."

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett on smile
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"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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