"Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
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“Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.”
“The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)”
“I refuse putting from me the best that I am.”
More on Regret
“Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn't speak up, say I love you, or say I'm sorry.”
“Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself.”
“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”