"The truth can both lift up and knock down."

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Source : Kirby Larson (2013). “Hattie Ever After”, p.156, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Kirby Larson

“To teach is to learn twice.”

Source : Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”
“It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.”
“People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.”
“To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.”
“We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.”
“The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.”

Source : SARK (2009). “Make Your Creative Dreams Real: A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy P”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
“The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.”

Source : Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure (2004). “The luminous ground: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe”
“Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.”

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