"Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices."

-- E. F. Schumacher

#Choices Quotes #Tasks Quotes #World Quotes

“I don’t want to do what my idols did… I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I’m on my way.”
“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.”
“He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”
“Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.”

Source : "7 Mind-Blowing Benefits of Exercise" by Deborah Kotz and Angela Haupt, health.usnews.com. March 7, 2012.
“I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.”
“Look back to 1948 when the British Medical Association denounced Aneurin Bevan as 'a would-be Führer' for wanting them to join a National Health Service. And Bevan himself described the BMA as 'politically poisoned people'. A survey at the time showed only 10 per cent of doctors backed the plans ... But where would we be today if my predecessors had caved in?”
“If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.”
“A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.”

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