"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

"May your pen happily writes ...™ ©Leah C Dancel

8/31/10

Ben Williams - like a puppy

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” ~Ben Williams, American Journalist.

Virginia Satir Quotes


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"Be gentle and loving with yourself and others." ~Virginia Satir

"Be open to receiving feedback and listen to it carefully because you might learn something about yourself from it." ~Virginia Satir

"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family." ~Virginia Satir

"Hugging is good medicine. It transfers energy, and gives the person hugged an emotional boost. We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth." ~Virginia Satir

"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference." ~Virgina Satir

"The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person." ~Virginia Satir

"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us." ~Virginia Satir

"We need four hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth." ~Virginia Satir

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Frederick Buechner Quotes


"A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand." ~Frederick Buechner

"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace." —Frederick Buechner

"Purpose is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's needs." ~Frederick Buechner

"TO SACRIFICE SOMETHING is to make it holy by giving it away for love." ~Frederick Buechner, Originally published in Wishful Thinking and later in Beyond Words

"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality—not as we expect it to be but as it is—is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love." ~Frederick Buechner

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8/29/10

Quotes on EDUCATION and LEARNING

"Education is the kindling of a flame, ..." ~Socrates
"A good education can change anything.  A good teacher can change everything." ~Anon 

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning." ~Brad Henry

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others." ~Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

"A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning." ~Lillian Gish

"A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation, will be very absurd, and consequently very unwelcome in company. He may say very good things; but they will be probably so ill-timed, misplaced, or improperly addressed, that he had much better hold his tongue." ~Lord Chesterfield

"Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn." ~Barbara Rose

"All the promises that education is meant to offer will come to naught if the so called educated are characterless. If all they know is how to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor and the unschooled.‪" ~Maximo Tumbali‬

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.   Anyone who keeps learning stays young." ~Henry Ford

“Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.” ~C. JoyBell C.

"Art has the role in education for helping children become more like themselves instead of more like everyone else." ~Sydney Gurewitz Clemens on We Are Born Creative

"As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports." ~Henry Giroux

"Be the teacher America's children of color deserve, because we, the teachers, are responsible for instilling empathy and understanding in the hearts of all kids. We are responsible for the future of this country." ~Emily E Smith

"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do." ~Umberto Eco from "The Name of the Rose" 

“Brain development is important, but the biggest piece of intelligence is your heart. It’s vital that when educating our children’s brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts." ~Dalai Lama


"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach." ~W. E. B.  Dubois


"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning." ~William Arthur Ward

“Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.” ~Anon

“Educate your mind with the treasures of love, care and harmony that will maintain peace.” ~Deepti Shakya

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." ~Aristotle

"Educating yourself does not mean that you were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent enough to know that there is plenty left to learn." ~Melanie Joy

"Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him." ~Geoffrey Holder

"Education is a powerful constraint against narrow parochialism and a gateway to ideas that can change communities." ~Miriam Defensor Santiago

“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.” ~John Dewey

"Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~Joseph Stalin

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."~Oscar Wilde

"Education is identical with helping the child reach his potentialities." ~Erich Fromm

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know." ~Daniel J. Boorstin

"Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled." ~ Wu Ting-Fang

"Education is not just a matter of 3 R's, but of the 3 H's - Head, Hand and Heart." ~ Dr. James Emmanuel Kwegyir Aggrey (TFBFG 1987 from Carol Ann Hewer)

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." ~John Dewey

"Education isn't something you can finish." ~Isaac Isamov

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." ~William Butler Yeats

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper." ~Robert Frost

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." ~Socrates

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." ~Nelson Mandela 

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life." ~Brigham Young

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." ~Albert Einstein

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." ~B.F. Skinner

"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." ~Pete Seeger

"Education was the only way to break the bonds of penury and lowliness." ~Arcadio Morada, Jr. , Memoir of a Father from Bayanihan News July 2013 issue

"Everyone has a reason for their beliefs. Every single person on this earth has a story, and sadly, some people don't think their story matters through being bullied into silence. Everybody's story matters in this world. We just have to adapt and listen without judgment. That's how we all learn from one another, and I believe is the reason we are all put here. To learn and love one another despite our differences.‪" ~Alison Amethyst Dalziel, August 14, 2018, FB comment ‬

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." ~C.S. Lewis

"Every education system in the world is being reformed and it is not enough. Reform is no use anymore because that is simply improving a broken model. What we need … is not evolution, but a revolution in education. This has to be transformed into something else." ~Sir Ken Robinson

"Every storm is a school, every trial a teacher." ~Rick Warren

"Everyone is a teacher to one who is open to learn." ~Surf Reyes

“Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.” ~Euripides

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." ~Epictetus

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." ~Jim Rohn

"From a very early age I've had to interrupt my education to go to school." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Great teachers don't always have the best lessons. But they always have the best relationships with kids." ~Songs for Teaching

"Great teachers engineer learning experiences that put students in the driver's seat, and then get out of the way." ~Ben Johnson


“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.” ~Tryon Edwards on Literature

"Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn, and not often, on their own, the hard way." ~Heinlein

"I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education." ~David Rockefeller 

"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn." ~Robert Frost

"I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned." ~Carol Burnett

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." ~Albert Einstein

"I see myself reflected in my students, with their desire to learn and develop their skills, now I can see that they are reaping the fruits of their labour and this fills me with satisfaction." ~Miguel Angel Ramirez

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life." ~Plato (Philosoper in Classical Greece, 427 BC-347 BC)

“If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need. If you're going to question something, question authority. If you're going to lose something, lose your inhibitions. If you're going to gain something, gain respect and confidence. And if you're going to hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your dreams.” ~Daniel Golston

"If you erase all the mistakes of your past, you'd also erase all of the wisdom of your present. Remember the lesson, not the disappointment." ~notes of greatness

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit." ~Anon

"If you’ve been through a traumatic experience, a difficult breakup, or endured a relationship that held you back instead of supporting you to grow, the very best outcome is to learn everything it has to teach you." ~Barb Schmidt

"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn." ~Phil Collins

"In order to learn, grow, and be successful you must step out of your comfort zone. Everything you desire is on the other side of fear." ~Lynne Taylor of Ups, Downs and Roundabouts

"Intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility." ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense." ~Robert G. Ingersoll

“It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life” ~Barthold Georg Niebuhr

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." ~Epictetus

"It's not easy to educate people about the value of what we were born into and what our ancestors passed onto us We take things around us for granted. Slowly though we are starting to realize how important their value is." ~Trixie Cruz-Angeles, NCCA Legal Counsel, Philipine Identity Keeper

"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth." ~Jean Piaget

"It is vital that our youth lead the efforts to create the conditions in which our people can sleep peacefully at night and our children can go to school without fear." ~Nelson Mandela upon receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, 30 May 1998, LivingTheLegacy‬

“Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.” ~Thomas S. Szasz on Skill

“Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” ~Zen Proverb

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." ~John F. Kennedy

"Leadership is an education and the best leaders think of themselves as the students, not the teachers." ~Simon Sinek

"Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later." ~‪Dana Stewart Scott‬

"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did." ~Sarah Caldwell

"Learning becomes relevant when we connect it with reality." ~Robert John Meehan 

"Learning can only happen if a child is interested. If he is not interested, it's like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating." ~Katrina Gutleben


"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy." ~Alexandre Dumas

“Learning gives creativity
Creativity leads to thinking
Thinking provides knowledge
Knowledge makes you great.”
~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind."
[Lat., "Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]”~Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." ~Chinese Proverb

"Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back." ~Chinese Proverb

"Learning is never done without errors and defeat." ~Vladimir Lenin

"Learning is the not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners." ~John Holt


"Learning makes a man fit company for himself." ~Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)


"Learning never exhausts the mind." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Learning without thought is a labor lost, thought without learning is perilous." ~Confucius

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." ~Bertrand Russell

"Mother Nature ... humanity's greatest teacher." ~Anon

"Never stop learning because life never stops teaching." ~Priscilla Dancel Bierbaum

"Nine-tenths of education is encouragement." ~Anatole France

"No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education. I know that we can reach this goal." ~Nelson Mandela speaking during the launch of 'A Dream for Africa' International Fund-raising Campaign, Cape Town, South Africa, 6 December 2004 ‎Living The Legacy

“Not all classrooms have four walls…“ ~Anon

"Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning." ~Antisthenes

"One of the chief objects of education should be to widen the windows through which we view the world." ~Arnold Glasow

"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more." ~Washington Irving (1783-1859)

"Our children no longer learn how to read the great Book of Nature from their own direct experience or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water comes from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens." ~Wendell Berry

“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar. We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children–to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.” ~John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

"Our lives teach us who we are." ~Salman Rushdie (from Inspiration Line)

"Sometimes, a break from a preoccupation offers an opportunity for learning, and maybe, even relearning." ~Bryan Ng Co

"Strong teachers don't teach content; Google has content. Strong teaching connects learning in ways that inspire kids to learn more and strive for greatness." ~Eric Jensen, Education Week Teacher

"Successful Schools don't focus on output; they focus on culture in the same way Sustainable Farmers focus on the soil. You get the culture right, and everything takes care of itself. That really means a culture of compassion, of collaboration, of empathy, and of the valuing of individuals - and the necessity of [having] our lives thriving through our joint participation." ~Sir Ken Robinson, 7th May 2020.

"Taking time and sharing is the essence of teaching. The future of those we cherish, will be a reflection of what we model today." ~Anon

“Teach others your knowledge and learn knowledge of others so you will bring your knowledge to perfection and learn something which you do not know.” ~Imam Hassan ibn Ali (as) Bihar al Anwar vol: 78, p:111

“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” ~Bob Talber

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." ~B. B. King

"The best education does not happen at a desk, but rather engaged in everyday living - hands on, exploring, in active relationship with life." ~Vince Gowmon.

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see." ~Alexandra K. Trenfor  

"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book." ~Anon

“The coping-stone of every woman’s education is love.” ~Abraham Dyson, The Golden Butterfly by Walter Besant and James Rice classic novel published in 1887

"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work." ~Michael Jackson

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence." ~Rabindranath Tagore

"The illiterate of the 21st century, will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." ~Alvin Toffler

"The largest portion of a child's education is in the hands of his mother, not the institution. All institutions is only helping to improve children's cognitive ability, including socialization. But the basic skill for life, which is always going to be provision for his future child, only to be had from a mother. That is why, make big plans for your children. Suppose we are the home of the school, a boarding school for the children of our children, create a curriculum that's great, if necessary international standard, and be professional in these matters. If we need to create the report development, and make our husbands as heads of the school, who should receive the report." ~from Awaliah Hafsyah

“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth” ~Desiderius Erasmus

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned to learn and change." ~Carl Rogers

"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers." ~Jean Piaget

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one." -Malcolm Forbes

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." ~Aristotle

"The school will teach children how to read, but the environment of the home must teach them what to read. The school can teach them how to think, but the home must teach them what to believe." ~ Charles A. Wells

"The teacher is the heart of the educational system." ~Sidney Hook

"The true teachers defend their pupils against their own personal influence. They inspire self-trust. They guide their student's eyes from themselves to the spirit that quickens them. They will have no disciple." ~Amos Bronson Alcott

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” ~Sydney J. Harris

"The world of education is like an island where people, cut off from the world, are prepared for life by exclusion from it." ~Maria Montessori

"There are four steps of learning: At first you don't know that you don't know. Next you know that you don't know. Then you don't know that you know. Finally you know that you know." ~Anon

"There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you." ~Elie Wiesel

"They say GET an education. I say CREATE your education. There's a HUGE difference." ~Leslie Samuel

"This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop." ~Maria Montessori

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." ~Victor Hugo

"To teach is to learn twice." ~Joseph Joubert

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life." ~Hermann Hesse

"True education should include pointing people to where the most important truths are found." ~Gerard Weston

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." ~Thomas Huxley

"Unless we learn to practice true humility, our material knowledge may lead to intellectual vanity—a feeling of superiority and even of arrogance." ~Richard Ames

“Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.” ~Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought." ~Bertrand Russell

"We have much to learn no matter where we are in our journey. Everything we encounter, good or bad is a lesson revealed." ~Owen K Massey

“When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.” ~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Indomitable Spirit

"Wisdom ... comes not from age, but from education and learning." ~Anton Chekhov 

"You cannot change another person's mind or educate them; this they must do themselves." ~Bryant McGill

"You learn in school. You learn by working and gaining a skill. You learn in life through experiences." ~Edwin Jamora

"You learn something from everyone who shows up in your life." ~Gilbert Teodoro, Jr.

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." ~Bill Gates

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OTHERS

"A culture of music education starts in a school gradually. It comes, always, from a teacher. It doesn't come because you say, "it has to be there because music is good." If you don't have a good teacher, you don't have anything, it doesn't matter whether it's music, maths, English, whatever it is. If you have a good teacher, that will happen. The big difference with music is people don't see it as essential." ~Richard Gill, on ABC RN's 'What Keeps Me Awake'

"A feeling of accomplishment in the child's face is the teacher's biggest reward!" ~Margaret Wilson

"A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own." ~Charles F. Glassman

"A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success." ~Jezza Dancel

"A humble person will always see the truth in simple lessons. Gratefully accept these simple moments, smile and take what they learn into everyday life." ~Angel whispers...wisdom

"All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence." ~Denis Whitley

"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men." ~Samuel Johnson

"Be thankful for the difficult times. During those times, you grow. Be thankful for your limitations, because they give you opportunities for improvement. Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character. Be thankful for your mistakes. They will teach you valuable lessons." ~Troy Amdahl

"Do your best to be at peace with your soul, and the experiences you are here to learn and grow through." ~Tracey Smith

"Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them  be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world" ~Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

"Don't let a hard lesson harden your heart." ~Anon

"Each person you meet is a lesson to be learned."— Bryant McGill

"Every lesson is a widening of the mind beyond its conceptual limits; a stretching of the heart beyond its emotional boundaries." ~Gilbert 'Gibo' Teodoro, Jr

"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." ~Minna Antrim

"Give instructions only to those people who seek knowledge after they have discovered their ignorance." ~Confucius

"Good teachers are the ones who can challenge young minds without losing their own." ~Anon

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” ~C.S. Lewis

"I would like to learn, or remember, how to live." ~Annie Dillard

"If there is one lesson we can learn from the struggle against racism, in our country as well as yours, it is that racism must be consciously combatted, and not discreetly tolerated." ~ Nelson Mandela speaking during his Investiture, Clark University, Atlanta, USA, 10 July 1993, LivingTheLegacy

"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." ~Pema Chodron

"If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family." ~Ruby Manikan (20th century), Indian church leader

"Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but Knowledge stays." ~Bruce Lee

"It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor" ~Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom, 1994

"Learn to write your pains on the sand where winds of joy can erase it away. Curve your happiness on the stone where even rain cannot dare to wash it away. Pain will give us more strength and the pain is part of growing up. It's how we learn." ~Anon

"Life itself is a teacher, and you are in a constant state of learning." ~Bruce Lee

"Mankind's lessons are written in the ruins of his civilization.” ~Anthony T. Hincks

“Not all classrooms have four walls… “ ~Wild Woman Sisterhood

"Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to give you lessons in your life." ~Anon

"One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try." ~Sophocles

"One of the best lesson you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm." ~Anon

"Teachers who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.” ~Anon

"Teachers who love teaching, teach children to love learning." ~Anon

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." ~B.B. King

"‪The best school for me is life and I don't have a spare life to live it all again in perfection so lessons are there to learn from. Use this time on earth humbly and happily. To die with a smile for me is LIFE ACCOMPLISHED." ~‬Tess De Leon Hammer

"The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young." ~I Love My Family

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.” ~Alexandra K.Trenfor

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic." ~Oscar Wild

"The free man is not he who defies the rules…but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day’s experience." ~Bernard Iddings Bell, D.D.

"The influence of a good teacher can never be erased." ~Anon

"The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete." ~Bryant McGill

"The time has come to take concrete steps to bring about a real transformation in the ways we educate our future generations. We need to combine both an education of the mind with an education of the heart so that our children grow up as responsible, caring citizens equipped to meet the challenges of today's increasingly globalized world." ~Dalai Lama

"The trials we went through and the lessons we learnt from them provides us with the means to help others going through the same trials." ~Carlo Rhode

"There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"There are problems, ills and circumstances that are only healed with the passing of time, either by them being actually solved or by us learning to cope with them." ~Spanish Proverb

"There is a great deal to be learned from books and school but you also have to get out into the world and experience things for yourself." ~Sean Hemingway on what he's learned from his grandfather.

"There's much more we can learn when we just open our minds to what nature can teach us silently, for that's how GOD has willed it, rather than rely alone on what men teach us with their mouths." ~Georix Alertze

“To have a student who is so passionate to teach others about it, and to show others how to live through it is very empowering, especially with adolescents and teens. Sometimes voices of their peers are far louder than educators and adults." ~Jennifer Burgess, Principal -Parker Performing Arts School, on Alec Ybarra Film "UNMARKED"

"University was once a place you were educated and respected for what you had achieved, these days your just a cash cow being brainwashed and turned into a snowflake and spend the rest of your lives complaining about the world instead of contributing to it." ~‪Robert Coley‬ (FB)

"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves." ~Galileo Galilei

“We could all take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.” ~Anon

"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself." ~Lloyd Alexander

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong." ~Bill Vaughan

"When the criterion for leadership was physical strength, men became leaders. Now, however, education has overcome such distinctions and there is greater regard for equal rights among women and men. Where old ways of thinking discriminate against women, we should change them. Since science shows that women are more sensitive to others’ pain, they have a special role to play in promoting compassion and human values." ~Dalai Lama

“Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family.” ~Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

"You always have choices. Don’t forget to practice that privilege. It doesn’t mean you have control over things that happen, it simply means you can choose how to navigate through life’s lessons." ~Christina Morales

"You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

"You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something." ~H.G. wells

"You learn something every day if you pay attention." ~Ray LeBlond

“Your soul awakens your mind.
Your mind makes your choices.
Your choices manifest your life.
Your life is your lesson.
Your lessons create wisdom.
Your wisdom enriches your soul.”
~Karen A. Baquiran

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8/28/10

Mae Jemison - imagination

"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." ~Mae Jemison


8/27/10

King George V - Six Treasured Maxims

Teach me to be obedient to the rules of the game;

Teach me to distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality, admiring the one and despising the other;

Teach me neither to proffer nor receive cheap praises;

If I am called upon to suffer let me be like a well-bred beast that goes away to suffer in silence;

Teach me to win, if I may; if I may not, then above all teach me to be a good loser;

Teach me neither to cry for the moon nor over spilt milk.

Source: The Friendship Book of Francis Gay, 1981

Lao Tsu Quotes

Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?

Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?

The Master doesn't seek fulfillment,
but not seeking, not expecting,
is present, and can welcome all things.

Lao Tsu

Others

"A tree unbending is easily broken." ~Lao Tsu

"An integral being knows without going, sees without looking and accomplishes without doing." ~Lao Tsu

"Stop thinking, and end your problems." ~Lao-Tsu

"Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Do not be concerned with loss or gain. Love the world as your own Self; then you can truly care for all things." ~Lao Tsu

"Therefore the sage keeps to the deed that consists in taking no action and practices the teaching that uses no words." ~Lao-Tsu

8/25/10

Leah Dancel - load

"The burden is heavy because we keep looking at the load. Learn to overlook trivial mistakes of others and avoid unwanted stress due to their impertinence and imperfection. We have our own to be concerned of." - Leah Dancel, my silent advice to a warring tribe, talking to myself while walking down the street on my way home tonight- 25 August 2010

Paul Boese - forgiveness

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." ~Paul Boese

8/23/10

Marianna Olszewski - master of life

"Act as a master of your life by putting your health, well being and happiness first."
~Marianna Olszewski

8/21/10

C. Neil Strait - Kindness

"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person." ~C. Neil Strait

8/19/10

Mary Webb - swerve from path

"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path." ~Mary Webb

8/17/10

Julian Simon -optimist

"People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator....When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers...I appreciate where we've come from." ~Julian Simon

60th Birthday

"Here's a posy of flowers, and a basket too,
With Birthday greetings all for you." ~Anonymous

"I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white,
The violets, and the lily-cups,
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburmum on his birthday,-
The tree is living yet." ~Thomas Hood

8/16/10

Bruce Jenner - point of no return

"If you want to take your mission in life to the Next Level, look inside. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the champion within will propel you toward victory." ~ Olympian Bruce Jenner

Gary Ryan Blair - deliberate decisions

"Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence — all directed at specific goals."~Gary Ryan Blair

Jorge Luis Borges Quotes


"All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art." ~Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature.

"Any life, no matter how long and complete it may be, is made up of a single moment—the moment in which a person finds out, once and for all, who they are." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Being conservative is a way of being skeptic." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen?
Look at the moon.
Do you want to hear what ears have never heard?
Listen to the bird's cry.
Do you want to touch what hands have never touched?
Touch the earth.
Verily I say that God is about to create the world."
~Jorge Luis Borges

"Doubt is one of the names of intelligence." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much." ~Jorge Louis Borges

“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.” ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Let heaven exist, though my own place may be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul,  instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." ~Jorge Luis Borges 

"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely." ~Jorge Luis Borges

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Sue Patton Thoele Quotes


"I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the person we were created to be. However, our true selves only emerge when it's safe to do so. Self-condemnation, shame, and guilt send your true nature into hiding. It's only in the safety of gentle curiosity, encouragement, and self-love that your soul can bloom as it was created to do." ~Sue Patton Thoele

"Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds minute by precious minute, you are better able to savour each experience." ~Sue Patton Thoele

“Remembering our true capabilities will assist us in finding the courage to be our brightest, most authentic selves.” ~Sue Patton Thoele

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Dr. Joyce Brothers Quotes


"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." ~Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." ~Dr. Joyce Brothers

"When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all." ~Joyce Brothers

"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses." ~Dr. Joyce Brothers

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Joann Davis - inner world

"Our inner world is ours to make of what we choose. Magnificent changes can radiate out of every human heart if we so desire."~ Joann Davis

Andrew Carnegie Quotes


"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." ~Andrew Carnegie

"Concentration is my motto: first honesty, then industry, then concentration." ~Andrew Carnegie

“Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.” ~Andrew Carnegie
Library:

"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave." ~Andrew Carnegie

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." ~Andrew Carnegie

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” ~Andrew Carnegie

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." ~Andrew Carnegie

"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his or her lifetime for the good of the community." ~Andrew Carnegie

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." ~Andrew Carnegie

"There is little success where there is little laughter." ~Andrew Carnegie

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!" ~Andrew Carnegie

“Thinking, education, knowledge, native ability - these are nothing but empty words unless they are translated into action.” ~Andrew Carnegie

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WILLIAM BLAKE Quotes


NSW Government House
2010

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself." ~William Blake

OTHER QUOTES:

"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." ~William Blake

"And we are put on earth a little space
That we my learn to bear the beams of love."
~William Blake

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time." ~William Blake

"Gratitude is heaven itself." ~William Blake

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet." ~William Blake

"He who binds to himself a joy,
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sunrise." 
~William Blake~  

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite." ~William Blake

"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out." ~William Blake

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." ~William Blake

"In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors." ~William Blake 

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." ~William Blake (1757–1827), British poet, painter, engraver.

"Opposition is true friendship." ~William Blake

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." ~William Blake

"The busy bee has no time for sorrow." ~William Blake

"The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever." ~William Blake

"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest." ~William Blake

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself." ~William Blake

"Think in the morning.
Act in the noon.
Eat in the evening.
Sleep in the night."
~William Blake


"To create a little flower is the labour of all ages." ~William Blake 

"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour." ~William Blake

"Travelers repose and dream among my leaves." ~William Blake

"What is now proved was once only imagined." ~William Blake

"When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree." ~William Blake

“When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!” ~William Blake, poet and artist

"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." ~William Blake


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VERSE

"A Divine Image"
by William Blake
Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.

The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.



“The Lily of the valley, breathing in the humble grass
Answer'd the lovely maid and said: "I am a watry weed,
And I am very small, and love to dwell in lowly vales;
So weak, the gilded butterfly scarce perches on my head;
Yet I am visited from heaven, and he that smiles on all
Walks in the valley and each morn over me spreads his hand,
Saying: 'Rejoice, thou humble grass, thou new-born lily flower,”

BIO

WILLIAM BLAKE 
(1757-1827), 
English poet, painter, printmaker 

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OG MANDINO Quotes


"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." ~Og Mandino

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." ~Og Mandino

"Count your blessings. Once you realise how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence." ~Og Mandino

"Do all things with love." Og Mandino

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” ~Og Mandino

"I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge." ~Og Mandino

"I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? I look on all things with love and be born again." ~Og Mandino

"I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." ~Og Mandino

"I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit." ~Og Mandino

"I will master my moods through positive action and when I master my moods I will control my destiny." ~Og Mandino

"I will not fail as the others, for in my hands I now hold the charts (the Ten Scrolls) which will guide me through perilous waters to shores which only yesterday seemed but a dream." ~Og Mandino

"I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul." ~Og Mandino

"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality." ~Og Mandino

"Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously." ~Og Mandino

"Realise that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." ~Og Mandino

"The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside her specialty or foolishly dissipates her individuality" ~Og Mandino

"The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories" ~Og Mandino

"The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound." ~Og Mandino

"The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do." ~Og Mandino

"The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind." ~Og Mandino (1923-1996)

"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished." ~Og Mandino

"Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail." ~Og Mandino




FULL PHRASE

“I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.” ~Og Mandino (1923 - ) 

VERSE

"Seep into my other mind,
that mysterious source
which never sleeps,
which creates my dreams,
and often makes me act
in ways I do not comprehend.

My vigor will increase,
my enthusiasm will rise,
my desire to meet the world
will overcome every fear
I once knew at sunrise,
and I will be happier
than I ever believed it possible
to be in this world
of strife and sorrow."
~Og Mandino (Scroll I)

BIO

Born as AUGUSTINE OG MANDINO to Italian parents, he wrote The Greatest Salesman in the World which contains the "time-tested wisdom of the ancients distilled into ten simple scrolls" which, if followed for the prescribed ten months.

As the words of these scrolls are consumed by my mysterious mind I will begin to awake, each morning, with a vitality I have never known before.

The scrolls each have a principle designed to replace bad habits built up over a lifetime which "threatens to imprison my future" (Scroll I) with good habits developed through a ten-month process of studying the scrolls.

They are:
* Scroll I – I will form good habits and become their slave.
* Scroll II – I will greet this day with love in my heart.
* Scroll III – I will persist until I succeed.
* Scroll IV – I am nature's greatest miracle.
* Scroll V – I will live this day as if it is my last.
* Scroll VI – Today I will be master of my emotions.
* Scroll VII – I will laugh at the world (Keep perspective)
* Scroll VIII – Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
* Scroll IX – I will act now.
* Scroll X – I will pray for guidance.

Mandino's main philosophical message is that every person on earth is a miracle and should choose to direct their life with confidence and congruent to the laws that govern abundance. He wrote in Scroll I, "I will not fail as the others, for in my hands I now hold the charts (the Ten Scrolls) which will guide me through perilous waters to shores which only yesterday seemed but a dream." Og was also a proponent of taking action now. In Scroll IX, the phrase I will act now is written 18 times. He claimed that all successful people take on their own lives by "charting" or consciously choosing both the desired destination and the path to reach it.

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8/15/10

Qoutes on (Greek, Macedonia) Philosophers



Apocrypha

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life." ~Apocrypha

"You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says." ~Aristippus

Atticus

"People will say you're beautiful but it takes a special person to make you believe it." ~Atticus

"The doubters are just dreamers with broken hearts." ~Atticus

"We are made of all those who have built and broken us." ~Atticus

Catullus

"Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more." ~Catullus


Caecilius Statius

"Grant us a brief delay impulse in everything is but a worthless servant." ~Caecilius Statius

Petrarch

"To be able to say how much you love is to love but little." ~Petrarch

Phaedrus

“Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain." ~Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
[Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.]”~Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia) on Glory

Phythagoras

"Salt is born of the purest of parents: the sun and the sea." ~Phythagoras

Plotinus

"Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself is beautiful." ~Plotinus


Publius Cornelius Tacitus

"They make a wilderness and call it peace." ~Publius Cornelius Tacitus


Others:

"Each man is the architect of his own fate." ~Appius Claudius

"I'll speak to thee in silence." ~Posthumus Leonatus

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." ~Zeno of Citium (335-263 B.C.)


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Robert Brault Quotes


"A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided." ~Robert Brault

"After 5000 years of recorded history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 of sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? ~Robert Brault

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be." ~Robert Brault

"Do what you must, and your friends will adjust." ~Robert Brault


"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." ~Robert Brault

"For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient." ~Robert Brault

"How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it." ~Robert Brault

“If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.” ~Robert Brault

"In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to." ~Robert Brault

"It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had." ~Robert Brault

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got." ~Robert Brault

Sydney Harbour on Rivercat Cruise
5 September 2011

"Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction." ~Robert Brault

"Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again." ~Robert Brault

“Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.” ~Robert Brault

"Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken." -Robert Brault

"Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friends." ~Robert Brault

"There are days when you'd just like to enter the world of a child's imagination and never come back." ~Robert Brault

"There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate." ~Robert Brault

"Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn."  ~Robert Brault

"Under every full moon, memories stir of the dreamers we were." ~Robert Brault

"When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone. " ~Robert Brault

"You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing." ~Robert Brault

"You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you can realize that your life is the miracle." ~Robert Brault

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Quotes on FORTITUDE

"What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation—of all the conflicts and the sacrifices that enno ble us most. A sick room may often furnish the worth of volumes."~Jane Austen (1775–1817)

"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a women beautiful."~ Jacqueline Bisset (b. 1946)

"Be thou my exaltation
Or fortitude of mien,
Lord of the world's elation,
Thou breath of things unseen!"
~Bliss Carman (1861–1929).

"Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude. Why should we be busybodies and superserviceable?"~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

"The thanksgiving of the old Jew, "Lord, I thank Thee that Thou didst not make me a woman," doubtless came from a careful review of the situation - MORE The thanksgiving of the old Jew, "Lord, I thank Thee that Thou didst not make me a woman," doubtless came from a careful review of the situation. Like all of us, he had fortitude enough to bear his neighbors' afflictions." ~Frances A. Griffin

"It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom... - MORE It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom supposed falsely, that all would go if they could; to be able to say nothing when everyone is talking; to have no opinion when everyone is judging; to hear exclamations of rapture without power to depress; to listen to falsehoods without right to contradict, is, after all, a state of temporary inferiority, in which the mind is rather hardened by stubbornness, than supported by fortitude. If the world be worth winning let us enjoy it, if it is to be despised let us despise it by conviction. But the world is not to be despised but as it is compared with something better." ~ Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

"That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work." ~ Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968), U.S. author. As quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 2, by William V. Holtz (1993)

"If tragedy elicits our compassion, comedy appeals to our self-interest. The former confronts life's failures with noble fortitude, the latter ... - MORE If tragedy elicits our compassion, comedy appeals to our self-interest. The former confronts life's failures with noble fortitude, the latter seeks to circumvent them with shrewd nonchalance. The one leaves us momentarily in a mood of resignation, the other in a condition of euphoria."~ Harry Levin (b. 1912)

"What is there
like fortitude! What sap
went through that little thread
to make the cherry red!"
~Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

"The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temperance, stableness,
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
I have no relish of them."
~William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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W.E. Farbstein - not even once

"The dog is mentioned in the Bible eighteen times--the cat not even once." ~W.E. Farbstein

8/14/10

Ray Hunt Quotes


"Don't do too much at one time. Do a little bit often." ~Ray Hunt

"If you are going to teach a horse something and have a good relationship, you don't make him learn it - you let him learn it." ~Ray Hunt

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Edith Wharton Quotes


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"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting." ~Edith Wharton

"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views." ~Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." ~Edith Wharton

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the arch-enemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.” ~Edith Wharton

"Life is the only real counsellor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue." ~Edith Wharton 

"One knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have critics overlook them and invent others." ~Edith Wharton

"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day." ~Edith Wharton

"Silence may be as variously shaded as speech." ~Edith Wharton

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." ~Edith Wharton

"There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow." ~Edith Wharton

“There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.” ~Edith Wharton, The Reef from Everyman's Library

"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision." ~Edith Wharton

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8/12/10

John Andrew Holmes Quotes


“A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness” ~John Andrew Holmes on Epitaphs and epigrams

"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both." ~John Andrew Holmes

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up." ~John Andrew Holmes


8/10/10

Lawrence L Lynch - a window

“The human face is a window.” — Lawrence L. Lynch

J Donald Walters Quotes

"In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth." ~ J. Donald Walters

“Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” ~J. Donald Walters

Micheal Teal Quotes


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"Have reverence for yourself and you will walk with the angels. Explore inner landscapes and the journey of growing spirit will be one of immense blessings. Ours is a vast ocean of consciousness and if one colours outside the lines they will be embraced by light and love will shine upon them all their days. Be the master of your own life, live your dreams, explore the infinite and yours will be a magnificent voyage." ~Micheal Teal

"Life is a spiritual practice of blessings and inspiration where the seeds of lovingkindness within our soul will blossom if we tend to them properly. Love is lifes water , sprinkle it over your garden and a tree of life will grow that will bear fruit for eternity." ~Micheal Teal

"My soul is dressed with beams of light that I may serve as a beacon to those in the shadows who are seeking vision and spirit. By bringing earth closer to heaven we can all give birth to the magnificence of our own being. Ours is a journey of compassion and transformation, by breathing in the moment we cultivate spiritual well-being and celebrate the miracle of life. Let your global soul create a new humanity." ~Micheal Teal

"The kingdom within is a lush garden that fills your soul with awe. An inner landscape of truth, beauty and love that if acknowledged and appreciated will transport you to a higher level of being where the glow of greatness will guide you to the essence of true wisdom. Find your wings and let your soul fly across a rainbow bridge of divine grace and harmony to a place where love is life and life is love!" ~Micheal Teal

"We all have a divine mission on earth. Let that mission be to inspire love and embrace the light within. Let that mission be to have peace in our hearts as we create heaven on earth. Let that mission be to seek empowerment through transformation and to breathe joy into everything we do. If we allow these things to be our mission the golden light of the sun will shine on our souls and change our world forever." ~Micheal Teal

"We are more than just physical beings, we are whispers of love dancing in the breeze. We are spiritual beings on a path of loving service, where if we pay attention the sacred earth wisdom within will direct our destinies to a place of peace where joy and love abound. Embrace how beautiful you are and you make your life a garden of grace and beauty. We are love and love is the light within that guides our way." ~Micheal Teal

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8/9/10

Sally Koch - helping others seldom come

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday." ~Sally Koch

8/8/10

Francis Gay - chance and change

"In a world of chance and change we can find comfort in the fact that there are some things that never change - truth, beauty, goodness and love among them. We should hold them fast." ~Francis Gay- The Book of Friendship 1981

8/4/10

FRANCIS GAY Quotes


"A heart attuned to beauty, goodness, kindness and happiness acts as a kind of magnet - just as if those things were always 'popping into our heads'". ~Francis Gay, The Friendship Book 1984, (August 21).

"A little restriction is often good for the soul. Too much ease and luxury can produce a poor spiritual harvest." ~Francis Gay

"A loving heart is a joy forever!" ~Francis Gay

"A loving touch can soothe away pain, and take the place of words." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1983

"A thought, a prayer, a letter, a phone call - all these can vanquish the miles." ~Francis Gaym TFBFG 1985 (from CAH)

"Always keep our eyes open to the beauties and wonders around us. Let's enjoy them." ~Frances Gay (1983)

"Fortunate is the nation that has writers to whom the truth means everything!" ~ Francis Gay (1979)

"Friendship needs a bit of effort on both sides." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1985 (from Carol Ann Hewer)

"Gardens are bright with early daffodils, crocuses, and other small bulbs, and in sunny spots the first dog-tooth violets are flowering." ~Francis Gay (1998)

"Happy, kind laughter can bring sunshine into our lives." ~Francis Gay (1998)

"How often does a certain fragrance bring back memories of a special occasion?" ~Francis Gay (1998)

"However humble our calling may be, there is a satisfaction in work well done which can be equalled by few other things." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1983

"...how true it is that much of the discordance of life's "melody" is due to our lack of quiet places, quiet times and quiet thought. They do help the music of life." ~Francis Gay, (1985)

"If we really try, we can squeeze some good out of even the bitter things of life." ~Francis Gay (1987 - from Carol Ann Hewer)

"If we really want a happy, satisfying life we need something to which we feel ourselves to be deeply committed--it may be a good cause, a charity, a club to which we belong, a church, a hobby--it does not much matter as long as it is something which really engrossed us, for engrossed people are never bored and unhappy." ~Francis Gay (1983)

"It's good to learn something new every day, for it keeps us on our toes and gives a zest to living." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1998/mpw

"It is not just the 'power that be' who have a responsibility for creating a better world; each of us can play our part." ~Francis Gay, 1984

"It is often among the very old that we find the courage that is born of faith." ~Francis Gay, TFB-FG 1980

"It's rather a startling reminder...how glory is found in the commonplace. What transformations are possible in us and in our world!" ~Francis Gay, 1984

"It will be the unconscious words and little deeds of kindness that will be remembered." ~Francis Gay

"Life has its debts and duties, its disappointments and frustrations but if we can learn to pay the bill with a smile, few things will get us down." ~ Francis Gay, TFBFG 1983

"Life is never as easy as we would like to think. Even when the stormy waters seem to be all behind us we still have to behave with commonsense and tact, never underestimating the difficulty of just "plain sailing." ~Francis Gay TFBFG

"Life should be remembered for the blessings and benefits we leave behind for others." ~Francis Gay

"Make the most of each new tomorrow. Look for the beauty around us, listen to music, lend a helping hand wherever we can. Let's try to use every moment." ~Francis Gay (1998)

"Many people have been encouraged to try a new path and found that it led to success." ~Francis Gay (1998)

"One of the best ways of overcoming our own griefs and troubles is to go out and do something for someone else in need." ~Francis Gay TFBFG 1984

"Ordinary folk of every nationality and every language know the art of friendship." ~Francis Gay (1983)

"Poets in every age have sung the wonder of springtime." ~Francis Gay (1984)

"Sometimes, it is the small things which brighten our lives. Never be afraid to let someone know you are thinking of them. It could be just the boost to their spirits which they are needing." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1998/mpw

"Sometimes our prayers may seem to have been unanswered. But often, if we wait, we find they have been answered after all - though not in the way we had expected." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1979

"The way to contentment is to learn how to accept what we can't alter." ~Francis Gay

"The will to do something is always more important than the circumstances we try to arrange for ourselves." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1985 (Carol Ann Hewer)

"The world couldn't exist without its second fiddles. Think of the people who never hit the headlines but cheerfully suppress their own ambitions to help a husband or support a family. While the stars receive the flowers and the plaudits, the second fiddles soldier on in the background doing a good job and often getting very little thanks for it." ~Francis Gay, TFB-FG, 1980

"There is an extraordinary power of friendship and the strength that can flow from one person to another." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1980

"Thought for others and the recognition of others' thought for us is a way of "greatness" within the scope of us all." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1983.

"To help people when we can - that's good; but to anticipate their needs is true compassion." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1983

"To learn patience is to learn one of life's most precious secrets." ~Francus Gay, TFBFG 1985 (from Carol Ann Hewer)

"To live in a silent world isn't much fun, and though blind people immediately arouse our sympathy, we tend to forget that deafness is just as severe a handicap. Let's try to be more understanding next time we meet people suffering from real deafness." ~Francis Gay

"To offer or receive the hand of friendship is a beautiful thing. This world would be a far more peaceful and loving place, if only we "kept in touch"." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1983

"We all have it in our power--listening to people instead of doing all the talking ourselves, asking them about their interests instead of simply expounding our own. This is the way to make people feel important--and the way to make friends." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1984

"We are all faced with difficult decisions at one time or another and sometimes, sadly, others are offended by what we decide to do. But if it's the right course to take then we must have the courage to go ahead. Better than sitting on the fence and going nowhere." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1984

"What a difference it makes to our outlook when we can feel that the world-the whole world-is ours to enjoy!" ~Francis Gay (1983)

"Whatever our own particular status in life, even if it be quite obscure and humdrum, we can always find opportunities to help somebody worse off than ourselves."~Francis Gay

"Whatever the weather, the first official day of Spring ought to lift our spirits with hope." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1984

"When I look at many of the flowers in my own garden, their names give an extra bonus to their beauty." ~Francis Gay 1987 (from CAH)

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W.T. Parker - blessings and thanksgiving

"Not what we SAY about our blessings, but HOW WE USE them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." ~ W.T. Parker

8/3/10

Pictorial Quote - friendship measured

Pictorial Quote - success and failure

Vladimir Nabokov Quotes


"Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards." ~Vladimir Nabokov

"I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine." ~Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is." ~Vladimir Nabokov

"Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations." ~Vladimir Nabokov

"The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea." ~Vladimir Nabokov

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8/2/10

Don Herold - neat

"There's one thing about baldness, it's neat." ~Don Herold

William Faulkner Quotes


"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." ~William Faulkner

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything good.” ~William Faulkner

"Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything." ~William Faulkner

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth." ~William Faulkner

“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.” ~from AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner from Vintage Books

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." ~William Faulkner from BrainyQuote

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James A. Froude - dream

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." ~James A. Froude


Lewis Smedes Quotes



"Forgiveness is a decision to set a prisoner free, and then discovering that the prisoner is you." ~Lewis Smedes

"Forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future." ~Lewis Smedes

"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited." ~Lewis B. Smedes

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Lewis B. Smedes

"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well." ~Lewis B. Smedes

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