Kardinal Grozdje Quotes & Sayings

I don't know if I ended up siding with the academics just because I happened to end up in graduate school, or if I ended up in graduate school because I already secretly sided with the academics. In any case, I stopped believing that "theory" had the power to ruin literature for anyone, or that it was possible to compromise something you loved by studying it. Was love really such a tenuous thing? Wasn't the point of love that it made you want to learn more, to immerse yourself, to become possessed? — Elif Batuman

The problem is that too often, and in too many ways, current systems of mass education are a catastrophe in themselves. Far from looking to the future, too often they are facing stubbornly towards the past. — Ken Robinson

We can honor our emotions after any traumatic event by moving through the experience centered in the heart with the goal of reaching the light on the other side. — Molly Friedenfeld

Nothing but magic is really like magic, when it comes right down to it. — Anne Nesbet

When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy. — Dalai Lama

The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example. — Seneca.