Maria Quotes

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?

Honor is a term much used but little understood.

a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.

The youthful heart is ready to believe what it wishes will happen.

If we cover a court case involving a murderer, we would still seek out the side of that murderer, even as we realize that what people say is going to be self-serving.

It's become extremely difficult to speak to active ISIS members now. I was speaking to them in 2015, and the last one was killed in a drone strike.

It seems to me that a 9/11-style attack is impractical.

If everybody would just stop talking, my job would be a lot easier.

Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these besti*l men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

The pianokeys are black and whitebut they sound like a million colors in your mind

A billion stars go spinning through the night, glittering above your head, But in you is the presence that will bewhen all the stars are dead.

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.[Songs of Longing]

Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appearedand what streamed out before us was not the f

Jesus loves hidden souls. A hidden flower is the most fragrant. I must strive to make the interior of my soul a resting place for the Heart of Jesus.

Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.

Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.

She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration.

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Every angel is terrible.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Another relative?" Valek asked.A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother's uncle's wife'sthird cousin."--Valek and Moon Man

How did you-"Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened.

Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." i love it so much

It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)

Petnaest srećnih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesrećnih godina su duge i pružaju čoveku mnogo iskustva.

Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?

If your neighbor's lawn looks better than yours, don't let jealousy consume you ..... start working on yours. With love and dedication, your side will look better than their.