Hatsuyo Nakamura Quotes & Sayings

Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development. — Maria Montessori

I'd worked my share of serial killer cases, but none of the killers had ever mailed me a human head. That was new. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising. — John Dieterich

Be yourself. Play within yourself. Play your own game. — Harvey Penick

My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations. — Laurie Graham

People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos. We can't have that, can we? And how do you make despotism lovable? — Frank Herbert

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive. — Hayao Miyazaki

The multitude of men and women choose the less adventurous way of the comparatively unconscious civic and tribal routines. But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums. It is only those who know neither an inner call nor an outer doctrine whose plight truly is desperate; that is to say, most of us today, in this labyrinth without and within the heart. Alas, where is the guide, that fond virgin, Ariadne, to supply the simple clue that will give us courage to face the Minotaur, and the means then to find our way to freedom when the monster has been met and slain? — Joseph Campbell

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men. — Henry B. Eyring

I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings. — Terry Tempest Williams

Every future turns into the past. The richness of your past dictates what you are today. It's not your decision what you are today, but what you will be tomorrow. This is where a part of your decision comes into play. — Ruben Papian

O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine! — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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