He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family" (73). - Bill Clinton, "Paying Attention

"She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave.

Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root in deep soil. Over the years, reading has caused me to grow from a shallow, self-absorbed youth to one who seeks out the pain of the world. Reading has burdened me with the welfare of my fellow human, but sometimes the burden proves too heavy for my narrow shoulders.

I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky.

In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free.

Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

"We get so caught up in the life we are leading and forget that we are capable of living.

If there was one thing that life has taught me, it's to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn't expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.

Sometimes you would think children are not being taught well . To find out that , what they are doing ? is actually what they had been taught.

"she's caught

The sound of your laughter is still echoing in the room of my memories. - F.M. Sogamiah

Your family rights, honor, history and legacy must be messed up. Imagine being taught to hate other race that has done nothing to you and you, yourself you don't know why you should hate and undermine them.

"Dear daughter, you are enough.

But the system for all its cruelty and deceitfulness, turned out to be stupid. It had taught its future gravedigger how to wield a shovel.

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people," Victor Borge

Are you so cynical of being that you would lend a cold shoulder disguised as a helping hand bent on curbing the advisory sheets that taught the straight path code of conduct?

I treat myself like I would my daughter. I brusher her hair, was her laundry, tuck her in goodnight. Most importantly, I feed her. I do not punish her. I do not berate her, leave tears staining her face. I do not leave her alone. I know she deserves more. I know I deserve more.

No regrets. Just lessons, blessings, gratitude and laughter.

"I have a daughter I have never held.