"There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it's craft."

-- Philip Guston

#Thinking Quotes #Crafts Quotes #Mysterious Quotes

“In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.”
“In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.”
“Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.”
“What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with children in the classroom. It is a matter of being present as a whole person, with your own thoughts and feelings, and of accepting children as whole people, with their own thoughts and feelings. It's a matter of working very hard to find out what those thoughts and feelings are, as a starting point for developing a view of a world in which people are as much concerned about other people security as they are about their own”

Source : Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (2006). “"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning”
“The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.”
“At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer.”
“If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you”
“If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing thatâ€™s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know youâ€™ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little Women”

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