Schefer Schools Quotes & Sayings

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. — Ammianus Marcellinus

When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such a state is called the function of 'thoughtlessness'. But to refrain from thinking of anything, so that all thoughts are suppressed, is to be Dharma-ridden, and this is an erroneous view. — Huineng

The secret to staying atop your priorities is to schooled regular times for review and reflection. — Michael Hyatt

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. — Charles Dickens

I find this morning that what I most vividly and longingly recall is the sight of my grandson and his little sunburnt sister returning to their kitchen door from an excursion, with trophies of the meadow clutched in their hands - she with a couple of violets, and smiling, he serious and holding dandelions, strangling them in a responsible grip. Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists - just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts. — E.B. White

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. — Albert Schweitzer

God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize. — Sam Storms

Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable. — Sergei Diaghilev

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another. — James Mill

My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a burning city through which giant carnivorous lizards prowled, eating survivors off of balconies. In one particularly vivid moment, I stood on a ledge as the jaws closed in, heat-swept, and tinged with the smell of rotting flesh. Beetles intended for the tough, tight minds of children should not be used by adults. We still remember a kinder, gentler world. — Jeff VanderMeer

Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy. — Joan D. Chittister

A percentage! What splendid words they have; they are so scientific, so consolatory ... Once you've said 'percentage' there's nothing more to worry about. If we had any other word ... maybe we might feel more uneasy ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The difference between comfort and nurture is this: if you have a plant that is sick because you keep it in a dark closet, and you say soothing words to it, that is comfort.If you take out of the closet and put in the sun, give it something to drink, and then talk to it, that is nurture — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world. Well, — Michael Marshall Smith

So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out. — Charles Wheelan