Paidia Plus Quotes & Sayings

I fight with love and i laugh with rage ... you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change ... — Ani DiFranco

What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives. — Henry David Thoreau

There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning. — Stephen Hawking

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well. — John Noble

I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration. — James Balog

A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man. — Ludwig Von Mises

If authority be required, let us appeal to Plutarch, the prince of ancient biographers. [Greek: Oute tais epiphanestatais praxesi pantos enesti daelosis aretaes ae kakias, alla pragma brachu pollakis, kai raema, kai paidia tis emphasin aethous epoiaesen mallon ae machai murionekroi, kai parataxeis ai megistai, kai poliorkiai poleon.] Nor is it always in the most distinguished atchievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles. — Samuel Johnson

I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it. — George MacDonald

Suddenly there was this intensity to everything we did and everything we said. Like my life had been itelicized. — Cora Carmack

All humans are made, in essence, of starstuff, and I sometimes wonder if the starstuff still calls out to us. — Zoe Marriott

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you. — Rashi