"Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give."

-- Cory Booker

#Giving Quotes #Teach Quotes #Show Me Quotes

“Change,connectivity,and learning to live well with others and with Nature and her ways will be the features of the world when seen through the eye of Tao.”
“A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.”
“For me, the difference between an â€˜ordinaryâ€™ and an â€˜extraordinaryâ€™ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.”

Source : Source: revive-music.com
“I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”
“Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.”
“Of course it does, Jomes answered earnestly. Many of life's treasures remain hidden from us simply because we never search for them. Often we do not ask the proper questions that might lead us to the answer to all our challenges. We are so caught up in fear and regret, that hope seems a foolish endeavor. Proof of hope, however, is not only possible, it is an overlooked law of the universe.”
“I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.”

Source : "Life after Tulsa". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2003.
“Itâ€™s such a fun job, and it can be silly and light and about making people laugh. I think I was doing it a disservice by thinking itâ€™s not something ultimately important. I always was saying, â€˜Iâ€™m not saving lives; Iâ€™m not a brain surgeon.â€™ And thatâ€™s trueâ€”Iâ€™m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and thatâ€™s a pretty important task.”

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