Maria Quotes

Every good work should have at least ten meanings.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

I'm focused on going out every day and doing my best.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.

Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.

All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.

All Quiet on the Western Front.

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.

It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.

The development of the mind comes through movement

When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.

Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn't necessarily eat during the tournament such as a nice-sized cake.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.

Get knocked down. Get back up. Always be a fighter. Don't be afraid of the punch. Don't be afraid of getting back up. Be afraid of giving up.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.

The book is man's best invention so far.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction

Don't wait until you are perfect to change the world.