"TheÂ environmentÂ must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences."

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Maria Montessori

#Children Quotes #Environment Quotes #Rich Quotes

“I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.”
“A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.”
“Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.”

Source : Allen Tate (1967). “T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work”, London : Chatto & Windus
“I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.”

Source : Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.
“The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we donâ€™t truly understand.”
“Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.”
“Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.”
“Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.”

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