Related Quotes
inspiring world boxes
If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is. Angelina Jolie
inspiring wise reader
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott
inspiring mothers-day moments
We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant. Alveda King
inspiring forgiving needs
If you never condemned you would never need to forgive. Anthony de Mello
inspiring african-american mind
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. Angela Davis
inspiring imagination silence
Go to where the silence is and say something. Amy Goodman
inspiring mothers-day strong
In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing. Amy Grant
inspiring failing ifs
I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that. Anita Hill
inspiring education wisdom
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin
education men practice
Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations. Alexander Hamilton
education feelings republic
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.
education school jail
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. Adlai E. Stevenson
education mind common
Education forms the common mind. Alexander Pope
education wisdom stupid-people
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
education learning knowledge
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
education money drinking
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
education exercise mind
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
education swimming pay
There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities. Albert Shanker
wisdom athlete soul
Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity. Thomas Merton
wisdom hate mean
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.
wisdom prayer pride
It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God – acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him and dependent, by His will, on material things, too.
wisdom silence
Whose silence are you?
wisdom artist alchemist
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
wisdom order evil
In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who strive to bring their own freedom under obedience to His divine purpose. All that is done by the will of God in secret is done for His glory and for the good of those whom He has chosen to share in His glory.
wisdom pain fall
The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.
wisdom jobs believe
Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.
wisdom evil temptation
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.