Maria Quotes
How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.
To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them
Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.
Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.
I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court
Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.
I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.
You know those goals you've set for yourself, those dreams you've been waiting for the perfect time to live out? It's time!
I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.
There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.
The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.
Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.
But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.
It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.
according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.
How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.
Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing.
Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.
Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.
Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
