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Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.

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Louise J. Kaplan

It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination. . . . Of what use are speech sounds and tools without an inspiration toward perfectibility, without a sense that we can create or construct a history.

Inspiration, Animal, Imagination, Toward, Making, Create
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Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him.

Mother, Saying Yes, Toddler, Yes, Rules, Behavior

The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

Future, Significant Change, Safety, Conscience, Whispering, Pointed

It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.

Century, Children, Elaborate, Infant, Perish, Want

By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.

Passion, Self, Imagination, Directing, Plight, Pleasures

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Adolescence, Children, Inspirational, Sympathy
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