Maria Quotes

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear.

Of all things love is the most potent.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science.

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

Talk without effort is nothing.

I don't mind being listed alphabetically. I do mind being treated alphabetically.

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.