Maria Quotes
The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.
An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development
The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.
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
Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.
Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.
If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.
Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.
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.
Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'
So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.
A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.
For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.
I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.
Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.
Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.
We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo.
