"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."

-- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

#Teaching Quotes #Pity Quotes

“Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.”
“Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.”
“I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be being able to combine those elements into a character.”
“A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”
“The quality of a survival kit is determined how much it can help you when you need to sleep. If you can sleep well at night, you have it made. It should also assist you in meeting your water needs.”
“Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.”
“Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.”
“Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”

Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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