Goedele De Wachter Quotes & Sayings

Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and it is what will keep you going. — Jeffrey R. Holland

The person of winning personality attracts his pupils who will do anything for his sake and are fond and eager in all their ways, docile to the point where personality is submerged, and they live on the smiles, perish on the averted looks, of the adored teacher. Parents look on with a smile and think that all is well; but Bob or Mary is losing that growing time which should make a self-dependent, self-ordered person, and is day by day becoming a parasite who can go only as he is carried, the easy prey of fanatic or demagogue. — Charlotte M. Mason

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't. — Nora Ephron

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me. — Amy Smart

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. — Josef Albers

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning. — Richard Bach

Like the residents of Brigadoon, the people in the church drifted in a long and dreamless sleep, freed of struggle and expectation. — Donald E. Westlake

All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to know all the consequences of these rules, except in effect just to watch and see how they unfold. — Stephen Wolfram

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain. — Jim Harrison