The - Quotes
The only objective definition of aging is when a person starts to talk about aging.
We humans are far more than the jobs we do and the careers we pursue. Education is a preparation for life, and only part of that is the mastery of specific work skills.
We are only truly alive in those moments when we improvise; no schedule, just small surprises and stimuli from the environment.
A man is made of many things
None of which can be seen at a glance
Even a rose can grow from concrete
If watered and given the chance
Think of me b4 you close your eyes
Allow me inside your heart
Let me lay in bed beside u
And keep you company in the dark.
The teacher`s highest art is to awaken his pupil to the pleasure of creation and recognition.
You never know what`s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you`ve climbed a mountain.
Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
The bad workmen (...) are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.
If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man`s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.