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#1

“There was a story going around about the Special Olympics. For the hundred-yard dash, there were nine contestants, all of them so-called physically or mentally disabled. All nine of them assembled at the starting line and, at the sound of the gun, they took off. But one little boy didn't get very far. He stumbled and fell and hurt his knee and began to cry. The other eight children heard the boy crying. They slowed down, turned around, and ran back to him--every one of them ran back to him. The little boy got up, and he and the rest of the runners linked their arms together and joyfully walked to the finish line.
They all finished the race at the same time. And when they did, everyone in the stadium stood up and clapped and whistled and cheered for a long, long time. And you know why? Because deep down we know that what matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win, too, even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.”
― Fred Rogers

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#2

“The world needs all types of minds.”
― Temple Grandin

tags: autism, autism-spectrum, inspirational, knowledge

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#3

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
― Woodrow Wilson

tags: brains, intelligence

1256 likes

#4

“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor

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#5

“You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: choices, choose, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking

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#6

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom

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#7

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

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#8

“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: happiness, intelligence

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#9

“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: intelligence

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#10

“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

tags: reading, summer

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#11

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: reading-secrets

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#12

“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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#13

“She had her addictions and one of them was reading.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

tags: addictions, reading

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#14

“One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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#15

“Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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#16

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
― Toni Morrison

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#17

“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: truth, understanding

1736 likes

#18

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

tags: abnormal, frankl, meaning, viktor

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#19

“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: belief, bravery, courage, depression, eating, exercise, food, future, life, living, love, loved-ones, medication, memories, reason, strength

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#20

“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment is bad are wrong. You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it. When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly; and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: breakdown, cognition, depression, future, issues, judgment, present, troubles

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#21

“The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

tags: autism, communication, internet

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#22

“Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

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#23

“If something or someone doesn’t work, it’s in a state of grace, progress, and evolution. It will attract love and empathy. If it does work, it has merely completed its job and is probably dead.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

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#24

“parents often confuse the anomaly of developing fast with the objective of developing profoundly.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

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#25

“Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

tags: bitterness, disability, disappointment, emptiness, feelings, fulfillment, happiness, hope, joy, love, potential, relationships, self-awareness

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#26

“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

tags: authenticity, caring, caring-for-others, caring-too-much, compassion, damaged-goods, damaged-people, damaged-souls, dysfunctional-society, dysfunctional-world, emotional, emotional-intelligence, emotional-pain, emotionally-disabled, empath, empathic, empaths, empathy, empathy-diversity, feeling, feelings, highly-sensitive-person, hot-mess, humane, humaneness, new-age-quotes, new-world, sensitive, sensitiveness, sensitivity, society, society-humanity, society-problem, tears-crying, weakness, weakness-and-strength, weakness-quotes

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#27

“You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.”
― Temple Grandin, The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's

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#28

“A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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#29

“An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

tags: education, growth, inspirational, life, personal-growth

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