"Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness. The task of education must be to stimulate and unleash the wisdom that lies dormant in the lives of all young people. This is not a forced process, like pressing something into a preformed mold, but rather drawing out the potential which exists within."

-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Lying Quotes #Drawing Quotes #People Quotes

“Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.”
“[Juan Wauters] got the tips for Queens because he grew up there.So him and my roommate, Matt Volz, they hooked me up, New York Style.”
“Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.”
“Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.”
“The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, ~~ all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.”

Source : "A Language Older Than Words". Book by Derrick Jensen (p. 361), 2000.
“I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn't have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later.”
“A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to savingly trust in a Divine object.”
“Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.”

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