Quote for the day

[Againsheila]

“I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”
― Maya Angelou

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

[Gracie]

 

[Gracie]

 

[Gracie]

 

[Againsheila]

“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
― Benjamin Franklin

 

[BDBoop]

If you didn't already know this, you do now.

 

[Againsheila]

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Freya Stark

 

[Gracie]

 

[Againsheila]

 

[Esmeralda]

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ~ Nelson Mandela

 

[Esmeralda]

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~ Nelson Mandela

 

[TemplarKormac]

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

~Nelson Mandela

 

[BDBoop]

Sometimes, it's the simplest things we forget.

 

[Gracie]

 

[Esmeralda]

“We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

 

[Esmeralda]

“There will come a time in every girl's life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn't crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).”
― Nakia R. Laushaul

 

[Esmeralda]

"Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”
― Euripides

 

[Esmeralda]

“I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, The Man In The Arena: Speeches and Essays by Theodore Roosevelt

 

[Esmeralda]

“Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.”
― Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education