Maria Quotes
Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market.
I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.
Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
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.
I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.
Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is silent dissents.
No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence.
A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.
Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.
A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.
If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!
The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust .
I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself.
Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded.
I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.
Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.
I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.
The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.
The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.
There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.
It is always the time of hope, confidence and love. Everything passes; love remains. We will not be disappointed.
Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.
Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.
If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble because I'm all over that dog, all of the time.
You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.
Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.
Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without.
