"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."

-- Jacques Barzun

#Appreciation Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Educational Quotes

“A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.”

Source : "Britain's Got Talent", April 11, 2009.
“Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.”

Source : "Introducing Regular Expressions". Book by Michael Fitzgerald, 2012.
“Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.”
“But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.”
“What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.”
“When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture”, Larson Publication
“To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.”

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