GODS

Negative thought weakens. Do you not find that
where parents are constantly taxing their sons to
read and write, telling them they will never learn
anything, and calling them fools and so forth, the
latter do actually turn out to be so in many cases?
If you speak kind words to boys and encourage them,
they are bound to improve in time. What holds good
of children, also holds good of children in the region
of higher thoughts.
If you can give them positive ideas, people will grow
up to be men and learn to stand on their own legs. In
language and literature, in poetry and arts--------------
in everything we must point out not the mistakes that
people are making in their thoughts and actions, but
the way in which they will gradually be able to do
these things better. Pointing out mistakes wounds a
man’s feelings.

· No one was ever really taught by another; each of us
has to teach himself.

· Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it
in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become
others.

· Study, and then meditate on what you have studied.

· The secret of life is not enjoyment, but
education through experience.

· The object of life is to learn.