Hopferau Quotes & Sayings

Literary men are ... a perpetual priesthood. — John Keats

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers. — Andy Andrews

From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best. — Frederick Lenz

Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now! — Paul Goodman

Sometimes you catch something specific like the screams and cries of people trying to hold on to each other before they're swallowed into other, bigger noises.
This is what it sound like when the world ends. — Courtney Summers

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means) to do one's bidding. One can possess the means of power: physical strength, armaments, and money. But authority must be performed. Authority refers to one's ability to gain the trust and willing obedience of others. While power rests on intimidation, authority survives through inspiration. — Joshua Meyrowitz

Life is much more than the evanescent present. We should do all we can to preserve our antiquities, lest we forget who we are. — Laurence Overmire

The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty. — Pietro Metastasio

I embrace mistakes, they make you who you are. — Beyonce Knowles

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and ... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful. — Henri Matisse