"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
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"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. "
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"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
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"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school" Albert Einstein | |
"The best of all medicines is resting and fasting" Benjamin Franklin | |
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." George Bernard Shaw | |
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." Anatole France | |
"Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it." Sir William Haley | |
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley | |
Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company. | |
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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The Capacity to Forgive We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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The Journey “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
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Good Character "Cultivate good behaviour, then cultivate Knowledge."
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The Prisoner
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Forgiveness & Love
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Knowledge & Justice
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A Night of Peace
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Character Revealing
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Teachers & Perfect Timing When the student is ready, the Master appears.
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Faith
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Character If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig. WoodrowWilson | |
If... If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt. If there were no doubt their would be no inquiry; If no inquiry , no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius. Walter Savage Landor | |
Within the Self
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Actions
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The Human Mind
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Never Quit
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Actions & Goals
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If you jump to conclusions, you are likely to hurt yourself in the fall.
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“Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.”
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The Glow
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"The eye of the spirit that focuses on the transient
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
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"We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost."
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Discouraged "Student says: I am very discouraged, what should I do?
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Happiness "Thankfulness leads to contentment, and contentment is another word for happiness."
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Minds "Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."
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Two Wings "Observe the qualities of expansion and contraction
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"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. "
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"There's too much judgement of others and not enough judgement of ourselves, `too much self righteousness and not enough self knowledge"
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And if a storm should come, and if you face a wave
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work"
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"There is a God
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"Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you" | |
"All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop" | |
"In history, search for answers about the Unseen, has always been a major force in motivating mankind towards the acquisition of knowledge: first, the teachings were from God, while the first teachers were the prophets of God. Therefore, the best educators ever to appear on the pages of time were all the teachers of God's Words and inspiration: The Prophets (upon whom be peace)."
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"It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work."
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"I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism."
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"I don't think that God sent us prophets and books to fight about these books and these prophets. But they were telling us, actually, how to live together. If we ignore those teachings...whichever faith you belong, you profess, then I think we'll be finding ourselves in an even deeper mess"
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"I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them." Yusuf Islam | |
"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after"
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"There are three types of people: Those building Bridges; those bent on destroying them; and those waiting to cross" |
Thanks to 'Cat Stevens'