"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."

-- Maria Montessori

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“Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.48, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.”

Source : FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Dec 29, 2011
“It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.”

Source : Nathanael West (1969). “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust”, p.61, New Directions Publishing
“God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.507
“There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”
“When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.”
“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”
“For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.Â As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.Â That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.Â When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.Â We call this the moment of death.Â That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.”

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