"The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world."

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Source : "The Philosophy of Education". Book by William Torrey Harris, 1889.

William Torrey Harris

#School Quotes #Dark Quotes #Self Quotes

“Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.”
“Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.”
“Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.”
“I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.”
“This is what I think. You canâ€™t have everything at once. Like the pockets in your clothes, thereâ€™s a limit to how much we can have at once. There are times when to put something in your pocket, you have to throw something else away. You have to prioritize those decisions by yourself. There are things that you canâ€™t get back once youâ€™ve thrown them away.”
“You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.”

Source : FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Aug 31, 2013
“The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me into bed.”

Source : William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated
“The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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