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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”

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Princess Sophie of Prussia and Victoria (‘Vicky’), Crown Princess of Prussia, 1874

“Childhood ought to be such a happy time, it never returns. I remember what a coward I was as a child over all and everything except the water. I think I had a fairly good nerve when I grew up because my Papa was so kind and patient, and I felt that when he was near nothing could happen to me. If he had scolded and shaken or forced me, I should have been nervous and terrified of him as well. Papa always said he could not bear to think of his childhood, he had been so unhappy and miserable, and had many a time wished himself out of this world. 

I always think we grown-up people ought to be so careful how we exact obedience from our children. Obedience that is not cheerful or willing only ruins the character. All that nonsense of ‘breaking the will’ is now recognised as making children vicious and false and sly. Training a child’s will so that it may trust willingly to the guidance of its elders, and believe in their protection, has obtained far happier results than enforcing a dogged obedience, as the child is not convinced that it is wrong but only dreads the consequences of displeasing its elders. But all this we only realise when we are older and have seen something of the world and of character and of childhood. 

For all these reasons I am so much for the 'Kinder Garten’, and against the dreadful old system of 'infant schools’, where poor little things were chiefly instructed to sit still and obey like little machines or tiny recruits, which is so utterly the reverse of a child’s nature, that wants constant movement and change and liberty, as well as love and kindness, to grow like a young plant in the sunshine.”

- Vicky

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“Once, there stood a tree by the road. High… proud… strong. It stood away from everyone, doing neither good nor harm to anyone. It had never loved anyone, nor had it ever flowered. It was dependent on no-one, and no-one was dependent on it. The tree knew how to keep everyone at bay. The forest, the field… and the road with all its travelers. And it had always been like this. “Say, tree… are you alone here?” asked the cat. “Completely alone,” answered the tree indifferently. “And you are not lonely?” “Not lonely at all,” rustled the tree just as indifferently. “And you never experience sadness, fear or loneliness?” “Never” “I don’t wait for anyone. I don’t need anyone.” “Ah…” said the cat, “how I wish to be independent, live alone, and not grieve for anyone.” “Well now,” said the tree with dignity, “this is not too hard to learn.” “Live with me, observe…” “and when you learn, you will leave and be able to live alone.” “Thank you,” said the cat, and she stayed there. “Where are you going?” moaned the tree. “Goodbye! Now I can live alone,” answered the cat. “Don’t go! You have taught me a lot.” “Stay…” And that is the whole story about the tree. Or rather, about the tree and the cat. Because if not for the cat, the tree would not have had a story to tell.”

— The Tree and the Cat, Written by I. GLEBOVA, Director EVGENII SIVOKON. (via amargedom)

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