"An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week."

-- Maeve Binchy

#Teacher Quotes #Children Quotes #Home Quotes

“Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed . . . I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.”
“I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you a longer time to write that book, but it's not a race. That's another great thing about being a writer: you don't age out.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.”
“Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.”
“I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.”

Source : Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.63, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”
“The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.”

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