Compostela Pilgrimage Quotes & Sayings

His favorite quote is from Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. — Emily Giffin

You know historians - can't leave a puzzle alone — Diana Gabaldon

It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented. — John Dewey

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers. — Gloria Allred

There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot. — Edwin Mullins

As Nancy Frey writes of the long-distance pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, 'When pilgrims begin to walk several things usually begin to happen to their perceptions of the world which continue over the course of the journey: they develop a changing sense of time, a heightening of the senses, and a new awareness of their bodies and the landscape ... A young German man expressed it this way: 'In the experience of walking, each step is a thought. You can't escape yourself. — Rebecca Solnit

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter ... or anybody else's wife. — Tommy Lasorda

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. — Plato

On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii ... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy. — Aaron T. Beck

My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery. — Paulo Coelho

Not all information is beneficial. — Ben Bernanke