"I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created."

-- Bell Hooks

#Practice Quotes #Paradise Quotes #Students Quotes

“If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .”
“I don't see much evidence of an equity bubble,”
“Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.”

Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”
“... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.”
“A song is a meaningful thing.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.”

Source : "Thy Speech Reveals Thee" by Elder L. Tom Perry, August 1986.
“I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.”
“Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”

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