Maria Quotes
What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
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.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.
Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots
God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.
I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!
I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.
I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it's great material, then you feel confident in it.
I can't say I don't like acting, but I can't imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars.
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.
I learned English in one month. I told myself I should listen. In the next month I could talk to everyone. I was so happy because I could do one thing...I could talk.
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.
I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.
Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.
When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.
I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)
That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.
We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.
The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world
The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.
But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.
We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.
The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.
Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
