Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
MARIA MONTESSORIAttitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
-
-
It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
My healing isn’t a choice to abandon others, it’s a choice to no longer abandon myself.
ELEZABETH SYMOND -
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
THUCYDIDES -
If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
RONALD REAGAN -
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
DEMOSTHENES -
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
HENRI NOUWEN -
On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.
ADOLF ANDERSSEN -
Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
TINA FEY -
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL -
Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the “Daily Show”, she was like no – there is no – the only way you’ll learn this job is by doing this job.
AASIF MANDVI -
I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.
BARBARA EHRENREICH -
I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this guy who became obsessed to become good enough. Now I sit down and tell people who I was. Now, I say, ‘Do you know who I am?’
HERSCHEL WALKER -
Please be careful. Hearts are fragile.
IVA TONIEVA -
The fountain of youth for me, let’s see…I guess it’s exercise, healthy diet, lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex – yes, sex, we need that as human beings. It’s healthy, it’s natural, it’s what we are here to do!
CAMERON DIAZ