Jean Piaget
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
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True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Be the best that you can be.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
There are simply too many notes.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
My precious.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
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 have lived. This is to have succeeded
Live your life and forget your age.
Hey, lady !
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Bring out the gimp.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Never Quit.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
The time is always right to do what is right.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
No man is wise enough by himself.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !