Paula Brackston Quotes

#1. If you are not able to travel, he told me, the next best thing is to read. Read all you can, girl. And store up that knowledge, for you never know when you will need it.

Paula Brackston

#2. To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with the vital information presented to you via the skills and dedication of those who have gone before you down the long path to enlightenment.

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#3. For, what is home? Surely more than a set of rooms, a roof, an address? Home suggests belonging. Suggests warmth, safety, companionship. Love.

Paula Brackston

#4. Faith requires no proof. No evidence. No explanation. Faith is entirely a matter of trust and belief. We cannot know, we can only believe.

Paula Brackston

#5. Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

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#6. Reputation is for those who can afford it.

Paula Brackston

#7. There is none so quick to dismiss what they don't understand as those who are afraid of it. And maybe with reason.

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#8. Better foolish and honest than clever and false.

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#9. Who was it, I wonder, who decided that heartbroken relatives should host a party at the very moment all they wished for was to be left alone to grieve?

Paula Brackston