#Teacher Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Children Quotes
“What particular experiences will nourish your soul? No one can prescribe that for you; it is something only you can know and experience. What is satisfying for one person may be just the opposite for someone else. Being out in nature, by the seashore, or on a mountaintop works for me. Communing with nature brings me into soul time. But for others, being out in nature is something to be tolerated, or even an ordeal, or just what you do if you're a member of a family that goes camping.”
“We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them.”
“Islam is a peaceful religion.”
“When you start to crack open, don’t waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift....”
“[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.”
“your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.”
“It feels real good to look at some of the guys who have played before me, then come in and break a record. But records are made to be broken.”
“If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.”
Cordelia Fine Psychologist
Erin Gruwell Teacher
Eva Vertes
Harry Wong Educator
Jonathan Kozol Writer
Lawrence Kohlberg Psychologist
Parker J. Palmer Author
Paul Tough Writer
Sarah Lewis Curator
