INSTRUCTION DOES MUCH, BUT ENCOURAGEMENT DOES EVERYTHING. - Jonathan Wolfgang Von Goethe

• The work of a teacher - exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same - is at its heart, an intellectual and ethical enterprise. - William Ayres- "To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher"
• Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. - Ovid
• Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.- William Bennett
• The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.- Marya Mannes
• Religion has historically been the language for people to talk about the things that mattered most to them, aided and abetted by the arts. Science has become the language that has helped people to know what they wanted to know, and get what they wanted to get. Psychotherapy has to occupy the difficult middle ground between them, but without taking sides. Since it is narrow-mindedness that we most often suffer from, we need our therapists to resist the allure of the fashionable certainties.- from "Going Sane: Maps of Happiness." by Adam Phillips
• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.- Anonymous
• When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder. - W.J. Slim
• It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.- Euripedes
• To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. - William Hazlitt
• To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?- Katherine Graham
• Laughter is the language of the Gods.- Buddhist saying
• Friends come and go; ennemies accumulate.- Anonymous
• When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.- Samuel Goldwyn
• A smile. A smile costs nothing but gives much. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. It cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile as much as he who has no more to give. - unknown
• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear. - William Jennings Bryan
• Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. - Ann Landers
• The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living. - Viktor E. Frankl
• The last of human freedoms is the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances- Viktor E. Frankl
• A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes- within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out of himself. - Viktor E. Frankl
• Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.- Viktor E. Frankl
• Thus, man is by no means merely a product of heredity and environment. There is a third element: decision. Man ultimately decides for himself! And, in the end, education must be education toward the ability to decide. - Viktor E. Frankl
• We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it. - Mary Blake
• Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.- Louisa May Alcott
• Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself. - F. Hawes
• The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall. - Confucius
• Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. - Seneca
• One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.- Sigmund Freud
• Science presupposes that what is produced by scientific work should be important in the sense of being "worth knowing". And it is obvious that all our problems lie here, for this presupposition cannot be proved by scientific means.- Max Weber- "Science as a Vocation"
• Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.- Robert Louis Stevenson
• Inability to tolerate empty space limits the amount of space available.- W. R. Bion, "Cogitations"
• It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.- Euripedes
• Happiness is something entirely subjective. - Sigmund Freud, "Civilization and Its Discontents"
• Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.- Henry Ford
• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.- Niels Bohr
• In Science, there is only Physics- all the rest is stamp collecting.- Sir Ernest Rutherford
• Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. - Seneca
• The man who regards his life as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. - Albert Einstein
• There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.- Washington Irving
• The Butterfly Story
• The mistery of human existence does not lie in living, but in knowing what are you living for. - Nicolae Iorga
• Whoever has a reason for living endures almost any mode of life. - Nietzsche
  
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If we take people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat them as if they were what they ought to be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming. - Jonathan Wolfgang Von Goethe
• Be the change that you want to see in the world. - Gandhi
• Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.- William James
• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot
• The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.- Margot Fonteyn
• The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.- John D. Rockefeller III
• You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. - Harriet Woods
• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.- Sir Winston Churchill
• Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller
• Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. - Charles Kingsley (1819-75), British writer and clergyman.
• Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. - William J. H. Boetcker
• If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself. - A. Neilen
• Judgment comes from experience, and great judgment comes from bad experience.- Robert Packwood
• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world – making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
• Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco
• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Norman MacFinan
• Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. - David Seabury
• Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. - James Buckham
• The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber. - William Mather Lewi
• Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Taught times do not last, people do. - unknown
  
• Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best. - Robert Browning
• The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources. - Vauvenargues
• It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain
• To know a truth well, one must have faught it out. - Novalis
• Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think - Nixon Waterman
• Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. - Helen Keller
• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.- Abraham Lincoln
• Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson
• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw
• The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. - Socrates, quoted in Cicero, 44 BC.
  
• If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. - Isaac Newton
• The way to solve the problem you see in life is to live in a way that makes the problem dissapear.- Ludwig Wittgenstein, - "Culture and Value"

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