You Are A Marvel
 
       Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again . . .And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France.
       When will we also teach them what they are?
       We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You   are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed,   there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your   arms, your clever fingers, the way you move.
       You may become a Shakespeare, a Michaelangelo, a Beethoven.   You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And   when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a   marvel?
       You must work - we must all work - to make the world worthy   of its children.
 
       By Pablo Casals
    from Chicken Soup for the Soul
   Copyright 1993 by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen