"For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine."

-- Robert Fulghum

#Fall Quotes #Old Habits Quotes #Mad Quotes

“Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.”

Source : "Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education of the 21st Century". www.nwp.org. 2006.
“A hospital patient can expect one medical error every single day of any hospital stay. Malpractice suits are numerous enough that one may reasonably conclude that there is certainly no guarantee of proper health care by contracting it out.”

Source : "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.
“Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.”

Source : 'Westward Hoe' (1607) act 2, sc. 2
“Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.”
“Wherever you go, thereâ€™s your teacher.”
“You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.”

Source : "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, (Ch. 6), 1903.
“What I feel I can do is help people become aware of how pervasive and extensive the arts are, how they affect each one of us in our daily livesâ€”what kind of [buildings] we live in, what kind of clothes we wear, what we see with our eyes. We are often blind to the beautiful things around us. What I'm mostly concerned about is how often we're blind to our own talent. I think that within each human being there is a creative spirit, and some of us have been fortunate enough to have good teachers and parents who've brought this out and encouraged it, but others haven't.”
“He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.”

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