"Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual."

-- Grace Lee Boggs

#Spiritual Quotes #Practice Quotes #Community Quotes

“All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.”

Source : "Poetry & Drama, Volume II (Essay on Contemporary American Poetry)". Book edited by Harold Munro, 1914.
“Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, Iâ€™m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isnâ€™t just realistic - itâ€™s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.”
“Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.”
“Mothers are the place that we call home. On them we rest our heads and close our eyes. There's no one else who grants the same soft peace, happiness, contentment, sweet release, erasing righttime tears with lullabies, restoring the bright sun that makes us bloom.”
“The professor leaned forward. â€œBut thereâ€™s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.â€ Her lovely face turned fierce. â€œThink about it Cath. Thatâ€™s what makes a godâ€”or a mother. Thereâ€™s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.”
“I'd love to say "Donald Trump is just sexist." And I do believe he's sexist, but I also believe that he also treats anyone who is his opponent in a very insane and disrespectful way.”

Source : Source: www.popsugar.com
“Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.”
“If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.”

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