Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. ― Neil Gaiman

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In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

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Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are. — Beyoncé

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman

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Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like, I promise. ― Emma Watson

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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. - Ida B. Wells

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Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love. ― Osho

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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. - Napoleon Hill

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Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs.

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