Castelar Elementary Quotes & Sayings

Moonlit plum tree-
wait,
spring will come. — Basho Matsuo

I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power. — Philip Schultz

If lying was an asset, the world would have been full of rich people — Thabiso Monkoe

It was only after I'd grown up and left that I developed an attitude [towards the South]. And at first my attitude was that I was ashamed of it. But the older I got the more I realize that the transgressions of the South were the transgressions of mankind, and that there were certain things that were superior. There is a cultural attitude in the South that embraces respect for family ... and in some ways for country. Although patriotism is not among the highest virtues on my list, still, the patriot believes in something larger than himself, and it is therefore a virtue. There is an attitude in the South that there is more to life than the moment. — V.S. Naipaul

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. — Marcel Proust

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine. — Thomas Keating