Maria Quotes
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.
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.
We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.
I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.
What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.
Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.
My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.
Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.
The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.
It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?
I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.
The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.
As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.
May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.
To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.
But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?
There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.
The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something
Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.
At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.