Maria Quotes

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

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

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience

We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.

They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

The point is to live everything.

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.

Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?

When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Am I not a woman and a sister?

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.