“I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.”
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Source: The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed
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Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill