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“I realized that if I was going to understand the uniqueness and depth of God's love for me, I had to mentally separate my relationships with people from my relationship with the Lord. God's love should never be distorted or diminished by comparing it with the friendship or love of any human who has let me down, rejected me, betrayed me, or lied about me.”
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“The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.”
Source : Laurent A. Daloz (2012). “Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)”, p.304, John Wiley & Sons
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“I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.”
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“That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.”
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“Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers”
Source : "Michael Morpurgo's top writing tips" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2012. 
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“If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?”
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“In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.”
Source : Bernice King (1999). “Hard Questions, Heart Answers”, p.45, Harmony
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“One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.”
Source : James C. Dobson (2013). “Raising Teenagers Right”, p.27, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
