Maria Montessori
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Attica ! Attica !
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Love is a many splendered thing.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Show me the money !
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Children are all foreigners.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Honesty is the best image.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Live life to the fullest.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Love the giver more than the gift.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Begin with the end in mind.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Success is never wondering what if.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.