Maria Quotes

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

There is a reason for everything. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same.

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.

Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

What's important is that I'm working with very talented young people.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

Within a few years the name 'Maria Sharapova' will be a brand as universally recognized as Calvin Klein, BMW and Rolex.

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

Positive thoughts lead to positive results.

No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis.

You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.