Is human love the growth of the human will ?

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Life is like a story

I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.