Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy.
BEL KAUFMANLaughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy.
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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.
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I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.
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I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.
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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
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You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.
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One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months’ summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect.
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I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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“Language Arts Dept.” is the English office; “literature based on child’s reading level and experiential background” means that’s all they’ve got in the Book Room; “non-academic-minded” is a delinquent; and “It has come to my attention” means you’re in trouble.
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Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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