if a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer... let him step to the music he hears however measured or far away... thoreau
never once did anyone ever make it clear what i was being educated for.. paul mccartney
we need to have people who mean something to us, people to whom we can turn knowing that being with them is coming home... b cooke
we may give without loving... but we cannot love without giving...
a moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience...
the greatest kindness we can offer each other is the truth...
he who's not busy being born is busy dying...
each dawn is a new beginning...
there can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm...
hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly...
the deepest feeling always shows itself in silence...
you never really leave a place you love... part of it you take with you, leaving a part of you behind...
i don't know where i'm going, but i'm on my way...
because we will walk it only once, then how important it is that we should walk it with some purpose that we can call our own...
in the sweetness of friendship there is laughter and sharing of pleasures...
it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye... the little prince
have you listened to a sunrise...held a moonbeam in your hands... have you touched the wild wind yonder, sunk your tracks in golden strands...
to have seen beyond horizons, gathered stardust in a shell...is the dreamer's fullest measure warmly wrapped in mystic spell...
to laugh often and much...to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends...to appreciate beauty... to find the best in others...to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition...to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived...this is to have succeeded...
as one may ascend to the housetop by ladder, rope or bamboo, so there are many ways to reach god... hindu
if a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn... if a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight... if a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy... if a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty... if a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient... if a child lives with encouragement, he learns confidence... if a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate... if a child lives with fairness, he learns justice... if a child lives with security, he learns to have faith... if a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself... if a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world... dorothy lou nolte
hugging does not upset the environment, it makes happy days happier and impossible days possible...
all rising to a great place is by a winding stair...
if love is not, o god, what feel i so? and if love is, what thing is it? chaucer
we marvel at the silence that divides the living and the dead...yet more apart are they who all life long live side by side and not heart by heart...
it takes a friend to pull you through crisis after crisis...real or imagined... helping is the ritual part of proving friendship...helping to understand, to lighten the work, to ease over troubles...and to know when not to help...
education is not a possession...a thing one gets and keeps, but a process, a search which by its very character does not and cannot end... james bowditch
a grade is an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined proportion of an indefinable amount of material...
every day is valentine's day for those who are basically loveable...
look to this day for it is life...the very life of life...in its brief course lie all the realities and truths of existence...the joy of growth the splendor of action the glory of power...yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision...but today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope... look well, therefore, to this day... ancient sanskrit poem
education...that marvelous, growing aching process whereby a mind develops into a usable instrument with a collection of proved experience from which to function... james michener, hawaii
a taxpayer is a person who doesn't have to pass a civil service exam to work for the government...
you are the only authority on what is good for you...and once you have seen this, you will feel an enormous peace and freedom... hugh prather
experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you... aldous huxley
people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it... pres. dwight d eisenhower, 8/52
i present to thee the flower of peace the touch between us has given blossom to...
a society without dissent is either without freedom or without vitality... senator charles goodell
to hold a pen is to be at war... voltaire
a woman should be delighted in her own sensuality, her softness, her cycles, her child bearing... shelley list
love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit... peter ustinov
the sea runs without end, sometimes slowly, sometimes swiftly, eternally creating formations and images in the sand...it is the same with life...we live, some of quickly, others with caution, taking time and the experiences create lines and impressions, and our faces like the sand, show what happens in our souls...
the dawn of each day offers us the context for new opportunities, new dimensions, new promises, new dreams, but most of all it sets the stage for change...
first you have to please yourself...
your life is what you make it...
don't part with your illusions...when they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live... mark twain
wishing you the blessing of time...time to breathe in the freshness of nature... time to see the faces in clouds... time to listen to the music of the birds...time to be happy...
your daily life is your temple and your religion...whenever you enter into it take with you your all... kahlil gibran
you are asking me questions and i hear you...i answer that i cannot answer...you must find out for yourself...
when a person loses money or a thing he's bought with money, if he still has his health, he can generally get it again... but when a person loses something he's put thoughts into, something he's created, he's losing part of his own self...it's like a part of him dying... pocket from the calico palace
i shall pass throught this world but once...if, therefore, there be any kindness i can show, or any good thing i can do, let me do it now...let me not defer it or neglect it, for i shall not pass this way again...
strive to understand the child in his own right rather than looking at him as a young adult... keep from putting children under pressure and offer instead encouragement and support... avoid sever punishment and offer instead constructive criticism and sincere praise... help them find answers to their questions and teach them how to think rather than what to think... concentrate on making progress rather than attaining standards...
i'm gonna work in the fiel's, in the green fiel's, an' i'm gonna be near to folks...i ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'... i'm gonna try to learn...gonna learn why the folks walks in the grass, gonna hear 'em talk, gonna hear 'em sing... gonna listen to kids eatin' mush...gonna hear husban' and wife a-poundin' the mattress in the night...gonna eat with 'em an' learnin'...gonna lay in the grass, open an' honest with anybody that'll have me...gonna cuss an' swear an' hear the poetry of folks talkin'...all that's holy, all that's what i didn't understand...all them things is the good things... grapes of wrath by john steinbeck
for man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishment...
the quality of owning freezes you forever into "i" and cuts you off forever from the "we"...
life has its seasons...fresh, young, unpredictable, fretful at times, and yes, golden and strong in labor, rapid in growth, brave and pensive and fruitful, blending gradually until one season is well on its way before another has quite finished its work...through all the seasons, through all the swift changes of cold and heat, emotional outbursts, strengths and weaknesses, the pendulum of preservation swings wide with faith because man can still control the changes in his life so that a springlike atmosphere prevails right through autumn and winter, however hard the conditions seem outside himself if he has an inner strength, he has nothing to fear, for then he knows... he knows the changes are beautiful...beautiful in their very nature, created to be so...and man need not resist nor cry, nor find war a necessity...for there is a time in every life...a time to be born, a time to laugh, a time to weep, a time to seek...a time to love...a time to keep silence...a time for every purpose...a purpose for everything under heaven...
i have died in vietnam...but i have walked the face of the moon... i have befouled the waters and tainted the air of a magnificent land...but i have made it safe from disease... i have flown through the sky faster than the sun...but i have idled in streets made ugly with traffic... i have littered the land with garbage...but i have built upon it a hundred million homes... i have divided the schools with my prejudice...but i have sent armies to unite them... i have beat down my enemies with clubs...but i have built courtrooms to keep them free... i have built a bomb to destroy the world...but i have used it to light a light... i have outraged my brothers in the alleys of the ghettos...but i have transplanted a human heart... i have scrubbed out filth and pornography...but i have elevated the philosophy of man... i have watched children starve from my golden towers...but i have fed half the earth... i was raised in a grotesque slum...but i am surfeited by the silver spoon of opulence... i live in the greatest country in the world in the greatest time in history...but i scorn the ground i stand upon... i am ashamed...but i am proud...i am an american...
i want to teach my students how to live this life on earth...to face its struggles and its strife... and to improve thier worth, not just the lesson in a book, or how the rivers flow... but how to choose the proper path wherever they may go...to understand eternal truth and know the right from wrong... and gather all the beauty of a flower and a song...for if i help the world to grow in wisdom and in grace, then i shall feel that i have won...and i have filled my place... and so i ask your guidance, god, that i may do my part...for character and confidence and happiness of heart... james j metcalp
oh, in the united states, the people are supposed to rule the government, but that is kind of complicated, because the government rules over the people... grade school student
to the children of future born: may your world be free from the entrapments of man's concepts of maturity and immaturity and may the innocence that surrounds you be the innocence of a world where love need not be spoken but rather lived... lawrence craig-green
friendship is a priceless thing...a bond without compare... unspoken though the word may be...a willingness to share... both joys and sorrows time may bring...in sickness or in health... the friend indeed pays little heed to poverty and wealth... but gives of self the little things, in thoughtful ways anew... a tie that binds nor yet confines...could such a friend be you? bessie redish
a smile is worth much more than gold, releasing warmth instead of cold... it makes the sunshine when it rains, creates joy, relieves the pains... but best of all, what a smile can do is give part of me to you... nancy degidio
laughter is a song, it warms the heart, it is light behind the dark... laughter can sway, it can cure, fills the unknown with something sure... laughter can start the day just right, make living a joy stored for its night... laughter will lift, never let down, erasing the bitter, worn like a crown... laughter is giving, laughter is gay, without words so much it can say... learn about laughter, warm some heart, serve mankind by lighting his dark... bessie redish
it doesn't hurt no place when i'm sad, i just know i'm sad... benny graves... 6 yrs old
teaching: the most important thing to learn is to be able to throw the plan away... what is necessary is to listen, to follow each minute to its peak, learning as you go... and this is difficult... it takes experience and self-confidence and courage... mary maccracken
you can instill a hundred techniques in a teacher, have her memorize thousands of technical terms, but if she cannot make contact with the children, they are useless... mary maccracken
there are places i remember all my life, though some have changed, some forever, not for better, some have gone and some remain... all these places had their moments with lovers and friends i still can recall...some are dead and some are living...in my life i've loved them all... but of all these friends and lovers, there is no one compares with you...and these memories lose their meaning when i think of love as something new... though i know i'll never lose affection for people and things that went before, i know i'll often stop and think about them, in my life i'll love you more... beatles
love is always patient, always kind...it is never jealous, never boastful or conceited...it is never rude or selfish...it does not take offense and is not resentful... love takes no pleasure in others' sins but delights in the truth...it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes...love is eternal... 1 cor.13
make me a channel of your peace...where there is hatred let me sow love...where there is infury, pardon...where there is doubt, faith...where there is despair, hope... where there is darkness, light...and where there is sadness, joy...o grant that i may not so much seek to be consoled as to console...to be understood as to understand... to be loved as to love...for it is in giving that we receive...it is in pardoning that we are pardoned...and it is in dying that we are brought to eternal life... francis of assisi
12 things to remember: the value of time...the success of perserverance...the pleasure of working...the dignity of simplicity...the worth of character...the power of kindness... the influence of example...the obligation of duty...the wisdom of economy...the virtue of patience...the improvement of talent...the joy of originating... marshall field
i love him and i don't know him anymore...i thought i did but i didn't...i just thought i did...i don't know what he thinks of this or that...i don't know if he likes strawberries or feather pillows...i don't even know if he loves me...do i love him? or do i love the memory of him, the memory of us... julie mccullough
the important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become... charles dubois
behold the turtle who makes progress only when he sticks his neck out...
minds, like parachutes, function only when open...
if you really want to understand me, please hear what i am not saying, what i may never be able to say...
to reveal ourselves openly and honestly takes the rarest kind of courage... john powell
growth is the only evidence of life...
seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth...
today i have grown taller from walking with the trees...
in the valley of dreams there is time to wonder...
be like the bird, who halting in his flight on limb too slight feels it give way beneath him, yet sings knowing he hath wings... victor hugo
hold fast your dreams...within your heart keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go...and sheltered so, may thrive and grow...where doubt and fear are not...oh, keep a place apart within your heart, for little dreams to go... louise oriscoll
a word is dead when it is said, some say...i say it just begins to live that day... emily dickinson
age is a quality of mind...if you've left your dreams behind, if hope is cold, if you no longer look ahead, if your ambition's fires are dead, then you are old... edward tuck
it is one of life's rules that nothing remains on the same level or at the same depth...change is inevitable... victoria holt
discipline is not the same as punishment...discipline comes from a latin word meaning "to teach"...the best discipline is that which teaches, not the kind that hurts...
three grand operations of the mind of man: to think, to choose and to perform... walsh triad
not by appointment do we meet delight or joy...they heed not our expectancy, but round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile... gerald massey
there are two worlds...the world we can measure with line and rule and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination... gerald massey
for hankering after the past often denotes a disappointing present...if we go backward to find our emotions, something is far wrong...equally wrong is the forward look, toward bliss in the next world... neill
they can because they think they can... virgil
to err is human...i'm uncomfortable around gods...
no act of kindess, no matter how small, is ever wasted...
your world is what you perceive it to be...if you change your perceptions, your world will change...
what is necessary is to learn to love and to acknowledge need and yet be adequate to live on one's own... martha lear
the hardest thing to learn about life is that the events which are important to you often don't mean anywhere near as much to anyone else... sloan wilson
history is a lie if you know only one side..
who can speak for me? no one but me...that's who i speak for...
sometimes i do not want the world to know that i exist...i want to see but not be seen...like gulls in mist... i envy arctic things upon the snow, white bear, the fox...in jungles i would like to be pure green and gray on rocks... i know some people want to be admired or to be kissed, but i find too much heartache is required...do not insist...
conversation can go beyond ordinary communication, that language when combined with love can conquer the separateness of people...
i like you because...i love you although...
she sat for a long time on a smooth rock and watched the movement of the water as it defied obstructions and went its own way... life moves on like that, she thought, pulling us on whether or not we wish to go...the streams deepen and widen as they drop seaward...our lives gain force and our horizons widen as the rivulets of experience trickle or gush in...
things end and things begin at different times for all of us...
they say that those who don't remember the past well, are condemned to relive it...
throw sad reflections to the wind where they belong...surprising things will rise to the top... and hand painted dreams flow...all of te pain has to go and find its space...for love will come and take its place... full time illusions always hurt you in the end...and haunting ghosts can replay their part to keep tender smiles down... don't let them turn you around...the answer's clear, your peace has always been right here... roberta flack album cover
those in love must remain complete people, first unto themselves and then to each other... susan polis schutz
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