Les paroles qui me vibrent

Éducation et Développement personnel

So dear Teacher, will you please take him by his hand and teach him things he will have to know, teaching him – but gently, if you can ... Teach him that 10 cents earned is of far more value than a dollar found...Teach him to be gentle with gentle people, tough with tough people...Steer him away from envy if you can...Teach him to learn how to gracefully lose, and enjoy winning when he does win...Teach him if you can the wonders of books, but also give time to ponder the extreme mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hill.

-A Letter From Abraham Lincoln To His Son’s Teacher, auteur actuel inconnu

Cette parole est aussi aimé par Malala Yousafzai

All religions are paths to God.
-Pope Francis

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

-Richard Branson

Procrastination is an emotional problem, not a time management problem

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La discrimination, le système, l'exode

My husband, Kerim, had left Xinjiang in 2002 to look for work. He tried first in Kazakhstan, but came back disillusioned after a year. Then in Norway. Then France, where he had applied for asylum. Once he was settled there, our two girls and I would join him.

Kerim had always known he would leave Xinjiang. The idea had taken root even before we were hired by the oil company. We had met as students in Urumqi, the largest city in Xinjiang province, and, as new graduates, had begun looking for work. This was in 1988. In the job ads in the newspapers, there was often a little phrase in small print: No Uighurs. This never left him. While I tried to overlook the evidence of discrimination that followed us everywhere, with Kerim, it became an obsession.

After graduation, we were offered jobs as engineers at the oil company in Karamay. We were lucky. But then there was the red envelope episode. At lunar new year, when the boss handed out the annual bonuses, the red envelopes given to Uighur workers contained less than those given to our colleagues who belonged to China’s dominant ethnic group, the Han. Soon after, all the Uighurs were transferred out of the central office and moved to the outskirts of town. A small group objected, but I didn’t dare. A few months later, when a senior position came up, Kerim applied. He had the right qualifications and the seniority. There was no reason he shouldn’t get the position. But the post went to an employee who belonged to a Han worker who didn’t even have an engineering degree. One night in 2000, Kerim came home and announced that he had quit. “I’ve had enough,” he said.

-Our souls are dead par Mme G. Haitiwaji

La croyance et les contre-croyances

With the threat of physical force again visible in the background, this woman’s photo highlights the widespread use of “guilt by association”.

Documents describe her son as having “strong religious leanings” because he doesn’t drink alcohol or smoke. As a result, he was jailed for 10 years on terrorism charges.

But she appears on a list of “relatives of the detained” - among the thousands placed under suspicion because of the “crimes” of their families.

-The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps, BBC News

La culture

Everyone is naked at the banya.

-Ostotsky justifying the nude scene in his epic war drama The Dawns Here Are Quiet, 1972, USSR

La philosophie

After all, all devices have their dangers. The discovery of speech introduced communication – and lies.
-Isaac Asimov