Israel Scheffler Quotes & Sayings

Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another. — John Taylor Gatto

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. — William S. Burroughs

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation. — Henry David Thoreau

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else. — Rumi

Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself among them. I am older than most sorcerers so what I know may, indeed, be close to the truth. Magic, wyrd, words, dreams, they all come from the spirit. Within them lie both power and peril. For to misuse any is to warp your sense of self. To lie in words, or in magic, or in dreams
that is how you become lost. The lights you see, they were lost long before they came to the Vale. — Robert Fanney

I've always had this strong sense that I know best. — Richard Coyle

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit ... and keep moving forward. — Randy Pausch

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. — Charles Kingsley

Sometimes to comprehend one's message you have to use mirror or a water. — Umar Inuwa Sa'eed Kibiya

Additionally, I have spent approximately 1,736 hours of this one precious life waiting for the man to finish and pretending that felt good. And I want a refund. — Anne Lamott

Kai whirled around and his face was sadowed by the angle of the sun. Still, she knew his tone. Anger. "What's so funny? That our project has been set back several says? That we're stuck here longer? That you take a little spill from a horse and everyone wants to rearrange the world so you don't suffer a moment of inconvenience?"
"No," she said, and her voice was even. "That I would wait a month in agony just to hear you insult me. I'm a miserable girl indeed, don't you think? — Diana Peterfreund

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.