"I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of the whole human being out of its nebulous elements into form, as planets and suns are rounded, until they give out safe and steady light. This makes the process a infinite one, not possible to be completed at any school."

-- Lucy Larcom

#Education Quotes #School Quotes #Light Quotes

“The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?”
“Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.”
“how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.”

Source : Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”
“The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it.”
“Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!”

Source : Conrad Aiken (2015). “The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken”, p.41, Open Road Media
“Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.”
“I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.”

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