"I go through life as a transient on his way to eternity, made in the image of God but with that image debased, needing to be taught how to meditate, to worship, to think."

-- Donald Coggan

#Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes #Taught Quotes

“I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up again. And whatever was good isn't good any more; white becomes grey, music becomes dictionaries, honey becomes beer and the sky a curdled lemon. There's no caramel anymore.”
“Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.”
“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
“Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.”
“Success is a great healer.”

Source : Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.95, Broadview Press
“The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.”
“It's more impressive," I said out loud. "From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it.”
“And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.”

Source : "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

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