Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery,
and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were
universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth
part of the wickedness there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and
immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our
hearts.
-- Anonymous
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and
stimulating in all creation.
-- Ray L. Wilbur
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
-- Herbert Hoover
Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes
you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.
-- Charles Templeton
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern,
but impossible to enslave.
-- Henry Peter Brougham
Only the educated are free.
-- Epictetus
It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?
-- Henry David Thoreau
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your
private heart is true for all men--that is genius.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love,
and something to hope for.
-- Allan K. Chalmers
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. - Leo Buscaglia
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.- Robert Frost
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.- Les Brown
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.- Ed Cunningham
If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. - Author Unknown
To generalize is to be an idiot.- William Blake
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.- Patricia Neal
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.- David Viscott
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
-- Martin Luther
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
-- Oscar Wilde
The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It
takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an
individual than to know no one cares or understands.
-- Arthur H. Stainback
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost
possible degree.
-- Ezra Pound
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
-- Ovid
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
-- Mark Twain
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we
live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
-- George Eliot
A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to
explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if
possible, the part their elders are playing in it.
--Emile Capouya
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within
himself.
--Galileo
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to
have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much
the old man had learned in seven years.
-- Mark Twain