"What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?"

-- Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

#Children Quotes #Lovely Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

Source : J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”
“To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.”
“I wish I were stronger and more secure in myself so that I could really spend my life with a guy like Lenny. Because he has a different kind of strength than Joshie. He has the strength of his sweet tuna arms. He has the strength of putting his nose in my hair and calling it home. He has the strength to cry when I go down on him. Who IS Lenny? Who DOES that? Who will ever open up to me like that again? No one. Because it's too dangerous. Lenny is a dangerous man. Joshie is more powerful, but Lenny is much more dangerous.”
“What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.”
“There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them; to take a course that will not tend to drive those spirits into families of the wicked, where they will be trained in wickedness, debauchery, and every species of crime. It is the duty of every righteous man and woman to prepare tabernacles for all the spirits they can. This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits which are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth.”
“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.”

Source : Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Death is an eternal sleep.”

Source : Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.”

Source : "Future tense". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

You may also like:

Arnold J. Toynbee
Historian
Daisaku Ikeda
President
Dogen
Philosopher
Francis Wayland Parker
John Dewey
Philosopher
Josei Toda
Nichiren
Sun Myung Moon
Religious Leader
William James
Philosopher