Oliver Sacks Quotes
Best A Leg to Stand On Quotes by Oliver Sacks
A Leg to Stand On Quotes
“If we have youth, beauty, strength, and talent, if we find fame, fortune, favour, and contentment, it is easy to be kind, and to meet the world with a kind heart. But let us only lose favor, and beauty, and strength, and health; let us find ourselves sick, unhappy, and without apparent hope of recovery; Only then will our stamina and moral character be tested to the limit.”
“We can easily see in others what we do not care or dare to see in ourselves.”
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“Children have the right to imagine. We need to give them full rights of citizenship in life and in society. It’s necessary that we believe that the child is very intelligent, that the child is strong and beautiful and has very ambitious desires and requests. This is the image of the child that we need to hold.
Those who have the image of the child as fragile, incomplete, weak, made of glass gain something from this belief only for themselves. We don’t need that as an image of children. Instead of always giving children protection, we need to give them the recognition of their rights and of their strengths.”
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